Carroll ISD: A (95)
All 11 campuses A-rated 3 years running (2023-2025); ~8,300 students
City · Tarrant County
Southlake
Population ~32,376 · carroll-isd
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Dragons football
8 state championships since 1988 — premier TX HS program
Local News
Southlake headlines
What's happening in Southlake right now
🎓 Schools
Carroll ISD sells Dragon Stadium practice field to the city
In November 2025, Carroll ISD voted to sell its football practice field to the City of Southlake, a transaction tied to ongoing facility planning around the high school complex. The deal reflects the tight land-use puzzle in a city where school and municipal campuses have grown intertwined. Source: Fort Worth Report.
2025 · Source: fortworthreport.org
📈 Growth
Southlake Town Square turns 25
Phase one of the mixed-use downtown opened in 1999, with Town Hall consolidating city offices, the library and a Tarrant County satellite courthouse under one roof. Build-out continued through 2006 and the Square now anchors Art in the Square each spring and Oktoberfest each fall. Source: Southlake Historical Society.
Ongoing · Source: southlakehistory.org
🏛️ Civic
Council-administrator government on the Tarrant edge
Southlake operates under a home-rule charter with a mayor and six council members elected at large, supported by a city manager. The city sits in both Tarrant and Denton counties, with the bulk of residents on the Tarrant side. Source: City of Southlake.
2025 · Source: cityofsouthlake.com
🎓 Schools
Carroll ISD: straight A's across all 11 campuses, three years running
Carroll ISD (Southlake) and all 11 of its campuses earned the grade of A for the 2023, 2024, and 2025 TEA A-F Accountability Ratings, with an overall district score of 95. Campus-level Student Achievement scores ranged from 94 to 99 across all 11 schools. Carroll serves approximately 8,300 students from Southlake, Colleyville, Grapevine, Keller, and Westlake. Source: Carroll ISD / Community Impact.
From across Tarrant County
🗳️ Election
Contested mayor races in nine Tarrant cities on May 2 ballot
The May 2, 2026 ballot featured contested races for mayor in nine Tarrant cities: Arlington, Euless, Keller, Kennedale, North Richland Hills, Pelican Bay, Sansom Park, Westlake, and Westover Hills. The slate also included numerous city council positions, school board trustee seats, and other municipal offices across the county. Source: NBC 5 DFW / Tarrant County Elections.
🗳️ Politics
Taylor Rehmet (D) wins Texas State Senate District 9 special election
In Tarrant County's state Senate District 9 special election held November 4, 2025, Democrat Taylor Rehmet finished as the top vote-getter, ahead by roughly 14,000 votes and a margin of nearly 15%. Rehmet replaces Republican Kelly Hancock, who left the seat in 2025 to become acting state comptroller. Rehmet completes the remainder of Hancock's term. Source: NBC 5 DFW.
Around Town
Around Town
Southlake's places, people, and traditions
Landmark
Southlake Town Square
A 130-acre traditional-urbanist downtown built between 1999 and 2006, with Town Hall, the public library, retail and restaurants arranged around landscaped greens. It hosts the city's signature festivals and a Christmas tree lighting that draws regional crowds.
Year-round
Heritage
Dragon football dynasty
Carroll Senior High's Dragons are one of the most decorated 6A football programs in Texas, with multiple state championships since 1988. The mascot dates to the 1950s, when a young Tony Eubanks suggested 'Dragons' for the Carroll Common School softball team.
Year-round
Event
Art in the Square
A juried fine-art festival held in Town Square each April, drawing more than 150 artists from across the country and routinely ranked among the top outdoor art events in the U.S.
Annual · April
Park
Bicentennial Park
Southlake's signature municipal park, a multi-phase complex with ball fields, a playground, an amphitheater and the Liberty Garden veterans memorial. It hosts the city's July 4th 'Stars and Stripes' celebration.
Year-round
Known for
- Southlake Town Square
- Carroll ISD + Dragon football
- Affluent planned community
- Gateway Church campus
The Story of Southlake
Southlake is a relatively young city built on much older roots. Pioneers settled the area in the 1840s in a scattering of communities — Whites Chapel, Dove, Union Church and Jellico — that farmed north of Fort Worth for more than a century.
Water changed everything. Lake Grapevine was built between 1948 and 1952 just to the south, giving the area both a resource and an identity.
In 1956 residents voted to incorporate — largely to avoid annexation by neighboring Hurst — and the first mayor's daughter suggested the name Southlake, for the town's position just south of the lake. It began with about 200 people.
After DFW Airport opened nearby in the 1970s, Southlake boomed into one of the Metroplex's most affluent suburbs, known today for Carroll ISD and its Town Square.
Sources: Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas; City of Southlake.
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Birdville ISD Board of Trustees
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Tarrant County Commissioners Court
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Fort Worth City Council
7pm · agenda online
TUE
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Arlington City Council
6:30pm · agenda online
MON
8
Northwest ISD Board of Trustees
6:30pm · agenda online
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Keller ISD Board of Trustees
6:30pm · agenda online
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8
Carroll ISD Board of Trustees
5:30pm · agenda online
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Sports
Carroll Dragons
Premier TX high-school football program since 1987
Football
8 state championships since 1988
1988, 1992, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011 — among most decorated TX HS programs. Source: Tradition Never Graduates.
Source: City + ISD records
Reach
26 state quarterfinals, 19 final fours, 11 finals
Sustained dominance for nearly 4 decades. Source: TNG / Southlake Historical Society.
Source: City + ISD records
Venue
Dragon Stadium
Where Dragons play UIL Class 6A football Friday nights. Source: Carroll ISD.
Source: City + ISD records
District
Carroll ISD covers Southlake + parts of Colleyville, Grapevine, Keller, Westlake
~8,300 students; all 11 campuses A-rated 3 years running. Source: Carroll ISD.
Source: City + ISD records
⭐ Game of the week
Carroll Dragons — district football (anchor program)
🏈 District football ·
Tarrant County's anchor programs — Carroll (8 state titles), Keller (top-of-district 5A), Mansfield (B-rated district), Arlington Martin (AISD flagship), Fossil Ridge (KISD power program) — get priority weekly coverage from the news radar. Carroll Dragons headline the off-season anchor framing; weekly schedule populates from MaxPreps DFW + each ISD's athletics site.
📜 On this day in Tarrant County sports
1988
🏈 Carroll (Southlake) Dragons claim 1st state football championship — beginning of the dynasty that would produce 8 UIL state titles. Under coach Bob Ledbetter.
1993
🏈 Carroll Dragons capture their 3rd state football title (1988, 1992, 1993 = three-in-a-row 3A run under Coach Ledbetter; QB Kris Brown led the '93 squad past Cuero).
2011
🏈 Carroll Dragons win their 8th and most recent UIL state football title — capping the program's run as Tarrant County's most successful HS football dynasty.
2018
🥎 Mansfield Tigers softball reaches UIL state semifinals — anchor moment for MISD's growing softball program under HC Gregory George's broader program leadership.
2026
🏃 Keller ISD sends 11 athletes to UIL State Track & Field — multiple medal-stand finishes per district release.
📻 Radio guide
Southlake Carroll Dragons football
KKGM 1630 AM (Fort Worth; news/sports) — exclusive radio home of Carroll football
Dragon Sports Network
Aledo Bearcats football (Tarrant-area marquee program)
KTFW-FM 92.1 'Hank FM' (LKCM Radio Group; country) — flagship for Aledo broadcasts
Aledo Sports Network
Arlington ISD football (Martin · Lamar · Bowie)
NFHS Network (streaming platform) — official AISD broadcast partner
NFHS Network
Mansfield Tigers football
NFHS Network (streaming platform) — Mansfield ISD live broadcasts
NFHS Network
Keller / Fossil Ridge (Keller ISD) football
NFHS Network (streaming platform) — Keller ISD live broadcasts
NFHS Network
Fort Worth-area HS football game of the week
KTCU-FM 88.7 'The Choice' (TCU student station, Fort Worth)
KTCU 88.7
🏆 UIL playoff bracket
No active Tarrant County UIL playoff bracket on the desk. Populates when a Tarrant County team is in a UIL playoff round (football, basketball, baseball/softball, volleyball). Source: UIL playoff records.
Activities
Things to do in Southlake
Kids, library, sports, fitness, classes, camps, open play — sourced from libraries, parks, and partner orgs across Southlake.
event
Southlake Town Square Concerts + Movies
Spring + Summer 2026
Southlake Town Square · 1400 Main St
story-time
Southlake Library Storytime
Weekdays · times vary
Southlake Public Library · 1400 Main St, Southlake
story-time
Baby Storytime
Weekly
Southlake Public Library · 1400 Main St #130, Southlake
event
Southlake Summer Reading Program
June–August
Southlake Public Library · 1400 Main St #130, Southlake
camp
Southlake Parks Summer Camps
Week-long sessions
Southlake Community Services · Bicentennial Park / The Marq Southlake
class
Legends Aquatics @ The Marq — Swim Lessons
Multiple session blocks
The Marq Southlake · 285 Shady Oaks Dr, Southlake
Civic & Government
Civic & Government
Southlake city hall, schools, and county connection
Government
Home-rule city, council-manager form
Southlake is a home-rule municipality governed by a mayor and six council members elected at large to staggered terms, with day-to-day operations handled by a city manager. City Hall sits in Town Square at 1400 Main Street.
Schools
Served by Carroll ISD
Carroll Independent School District, founded in 1917 and named for B. Carroll, the early Tarrant County school superintendent, serves nearly all of Southlake and surrounding pieces of Westlake and Grapevine. Carroll Senior High is the district's lone comprehensive 6A high school.
County
Tarrant County (judge Tim O'Hare)
Southlake sits primarily in Tarrant County, with a small slice in Denton County. Commissioners Court meets at 100 E. Weatherford St., Fort Worth. Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare; sheriff Bill Waybourn.
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By the Numbers
Southlake by the Numbers
Census + Carroll ISD + wealth + tax
Pop
32,376 (recent Census)
Among wealthiest US suburbs by median household income. Source: Census.
Source: City + ISD records
Carroll
8,300 students; A (95) rating
Straight-A district 3 years running. Source: Carroll ISD.
Source: City + ISD records
Sports
8 state football championships since 1988
1988, 1992, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011 + one more. Source: Tradition Never Graduates.
Source: City + ISD records
Area
22.5 sq mi
Crosses Tarrant-Denton county line in northern portion. Source: Wikipedia.
Source: City + ISD records
Population
32,376
Type
city
School District
carroll-isd
Home prices by city
Median home prices across Tarrant County (in progress).
| City | Median price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Westlake | — | Tarrant's wealthiest small-town |
| Southlake | — | Carroll ISD area |
| Colleyville | — | |
| Trophy Club | — | |
| Keller | — | |
| Fort Worth | — | County seat |
| Arlington | — |
Updated 2026-05-27
Population by city
Tarrant County city populations (Census 2020 + 2024 estimates).
| City | Population | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Worth | 935,508 | County seat, 4th-largest in TX (after Houston, San Antonio, Dallas) |
| Arlington | 392,304 | Cowboys + Rangers home |
| Grand Prairie | ~200,000 | Cross-county with Dallas |
| Mansfield | 79,708 | |
| Flower Mound | 78,854 | Cross-county with Denton |
| North Richland Hills | 71,564 | |
| Euless | 61,554 | |
| Burleson | 53,283 | Cross-county with Johnson |
| Grapevine | 50,898 | |
| Bedford | 49,337 | |
| Hurst | 39,337 | |
| Haltom City | 46,500 | |
| Keller | 46,044 | |
| Southlake | 32,376 |
Updated 2026-05-27
Ask the Desk
Questions about Southlake
What's Carroll ISD's (Southlake) TEA rating?
A, score 95. All 11 Carroll ISD campuses earned A grades in 2023, 2024, and 2025 TEA accountability ratings — three years running. Campus-level Student Achievement scores ranged 94 to 99. Carroll serves ~8,300 students living in Southlake, …
What are Tarrant County's 2025 property tax rates?
Tarrant County (general portion): ~$0.19 per $100. City of Fort Worth: $1.0624. City of Arlington: $1.0929 (down ~1¢ from 2024). Combined rates from Fort Worth ISD + City of Fort Worth + Tarrant County College bring the total for most Fort …
Who is Tarrant County's County Judge?
Tim O'Hare. He is the 33rd County Judge of Tarrant County since the county's founding in 1849, took office January 1, 2023, and his current term runs through January 1, 2027. He is running for re-election November 3, 2026, and has said the …
Who is Tarrant County's Sheriff?
Bill E. Waybourn. Source: Tarrant County elected officials (tarrantcountytx.gov).
Who is the State Senator for Tarrant County's District 9?
Taylor Rehmet (Democrat), who won the November 4, 2025 special election to replace Republican Kelly Hancock — Hancock left to become acting state comptroller. Rehmet won by roughly 14,000 votes (~15% margin) and is completing the remainder …
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History
Founded 1956
From farmland on a future lake to North Texas affluence
The area was first settled in the 1840s by farmers along the West Fork of the Trinity, but the modern town of Southlake was not incorporated until September 25, 1956, four years after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed Grapevine Lake. The new lake gave the community both its name (suggested by Tony Eubanks's daughter for the town's position south of the reservoir) and its identity as a lakeside suburb. Anthony Gail Eubanks was elected the first mayor. Growth was modest for decades, but the opening of DFW International Airport in 1974 and the extension of Hwy 114 turned Southlake into one of the fastest-growing affluent suburbs in the country in the 1990s and 2000s. Town Square's debut in 1999 cemented its identity as a polished, walkable downtown. Sources: TSHA Handbook of Texas; City of Southlake; Southlake Historical Society; Wikipedia.
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