Tolar Junior High

Tolar Junior High sits in the small town of Tolar, tucked into the rolling hills of Hood County about an hour southwest of Fort Worth — the kind of place where everyone knows your kid's name and small class sizes actually mean something. The school punches well above its size, especially in science, which stands out even by statewide standards. Families who want a tight-knit rural community with solid academics, and who'd rather trade city traffic for wide-open Texas landscape, tend to feel right at home here.