The Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District is located in the northwest corner of Tarrant County and includes of land in Saginaw, Blue Mound and formerly Eagle Mountain, and several housing additions in the City of Fort Worth, near Eagle Mountain Lake. Serving more than 18,000 students (a 17% increase over last year), the district consists of 16 elementary schools, six middle schools, five high schools, and a career training center extension campus for high school students.
All campuses in the district are accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the Texas Education Agency. From kindergarten to high school, diverse special programs are available to support the regular curriculum and to provide for special needs. The district also offers an alternative education to at-risk students through Watson High School's Alternative Discipline Center.
Bell v. Eagle Mountain Saginaw Independent School District was a 2022 United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decision involving copyright infringement laws. In 2020, a sports psychologist and motivational speaker sued the school district after two sports teams at Chisholm Trail High School posted in 2017 a motivational quote from his book Winning Isn't Normal on the social media website Twitter (now X). The school removed the posts upon a request made by Bell. The Court determined that Bell was a serial litigant, and ordered him to pay the district's legal fees. The court also opined that the tweets were fair use.
In 2025, the Chadwell Administration Building and Discovery Lab Learning Center was among six selected by the Texas Association of School Administrators and Texas Association of School Boards to win the William Wayne Caudill Award in the annual Exhibit of School Architecture. The same year, the district faced a budget deficit, 10% of which was due to staffing costs at Eagle Mountain High School (EMHS), which was opened in 2024. Superintendent Jerry Hollingsworth called reports of the deficit a "manufactured crisis just for politics." To cover the deficit, the district moved its fiscal year termination from September 1 to July 1, and planned to staff EMHS with faculty from their other high schools, which it said was overstaffed. The district also said they planned to lower student-to-teacher ratios, which improve learning outcomes.