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Quality of Life
The Saginaw area boasts an excellent school system, abundant housing,
tranquil parks, lake recreation, and a variety of restaurants and retail shopping,
all in close proximity to world-class museums and zoos, professional sports
and other recreation venues in the Fort Worth/Dallas Metroplex.
Saginaw has seven parks, three tennis courts, a volleyball court, a softball field
and a disc golf course.
Cost of Living
• City property tax rates are 33% lower than surrounding area
• Average new single-family home values: $292,000
Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD
Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD serves more than 19,000 students in the
City of Saginaw and beyond, and supports: 15 elementary schools, 5
middle schools, 3 high schools, the state-of-the-art Hollenstein Career
& Technology Center, and the Weldon Hafley Pre-K Child Development
Center.
• Is 73 square miles in size
• Is one of the fastest growing school districts in the DFW Metroplex
• Proudly offers some of the highest teacher salaries in Tarrant County
• +202 new residential permits issued in the past 12 months • Earned 33 unique academic distinctions from the Texas Education Agency
(TEA) in 2018
• Occupancy rate for multi-family housing units: 94.7% • Is a recognized District of Innovation by the TEA”
Higher Education
• Tarrant County College
• University of North Texas
• Texas Woman’s University
• University of Texas at Arlington
• Texas Christian University
• Texas Wesleyan University
• Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary