Franklin D. Roosevelt High School is a public school in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, Texas, United States, serving grades 9âÂÂ12. The school opened in 1963, and is part of the Dallas Independent School District.
The school serves several South Dallas communities, including Cadillac Heights and some Oak Cliff neighborhoods.
Construction of the school began in 1961 at 525 Bonnie View Road in the Oak Cliff area. Built before the school district integrated its high schools, the campus was the first new "Negro high school" built in Dallas since 1939 at the time it opened in January 1963. The school was built to serve a maximum capacity of 2000 students. At its opening, it was expected to draw about 1200 students from the Oak Cliff area, most having previously attended Madison High School — which had itself been converted to a "Negro school" in 1956 to relieve overcrowding at Booker T. Washington and Lincoln high schools.
The school is named after Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd U.S. president, in honor of his death and his assistance to lower class citizens. The school colors chosen were Columbia blue, white, and cardinal red. The most recent colors used for FDR are navy blue, light blue and white.
In 2005, after the closure of Wilmer-Hutchins High School. Roosevelt absorbed some WHISD high school students.
In 2011 the district re-opened Wilmer Hutchins High. Some former WHISD zones covered by Roosevelt were rezoned to Wilmer-Hutchins.