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The district was historically recognized as one of the poorest-performing school districts in Texas, in terms of both student test scores and managerial oversight. The Texas Education Agency (TEA) had, on several occasions, appointed monitors to oversee the district, with no long-term success. In 2004, deciding that yet another round of oversight would accomplish nothing (and after the district's citizens overwhelmingly defeated a proposal to increase the property tax rate; the district's records were so shoddy that it could not provide evidence that property tax rate increases had ever been approved since the ''late 1950's''), TEA ordered the district closed for the 2005-2006 school year. TEA allowed the Dallas ISD to take over responsibility for educating students in the area for the 2005-2006 school year ( Lancaster ISD was given first opportunity, but declined). Dallas ISD elected to close all of the Wilmer-Hutchins schools and sent students to its own schools. The entire senior class of Wilmer-Hutchins High School went on to South Oak Cliff High School . Other students were divided into several different schools. After WHISD was ranked "academically unacceptable" (the lowest possible ranking of a school district in Texas) for the second consecutive year, TEA exercised its authority to close WHISD and to have DISD absorb it, which it agreed to do [http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3337595]. The United States Department Of Justice approved the closure on December 13, 2005. [http://www.clipfile.org/] One local newspaper, the Dallas Observer , argues that DISD agreed to absorb the district not because of any desire to improve the educational improvement of the students, but because of the significant tax revenue to be gained from the recently-completed US$70 million Union Pacific Dallas Intermodal Terminal, which is located partly in the city of Wilmer and partly in the city of Hutchins {Link without Title} {Link without Title} As a result of the merger, Dallas ISD will hold title to the former WHISD campus facilities. It is not known at present whether any of the former facilities (primarily the elementary schools) will be reopened; due to WHISD's poor maintenance of the facilities any such reopening may be economically infeasible. FORMER SCHOOLS Secondary schools operating at time of closure High schools
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Schools previously operated by the district, closed prior to dissolution Secondary schools previously operated by the district, closed prior to dissolution
Primary schools previously operated by the district, closed prior to dissolution
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