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FOSTER PARK

Written by Eric Duran — Founder and Realtor, The Fort Real Estate · Updated November 2, 2026

The short answer: Foster Park is the cheapest way into the best elementary zone in 76109. 17 homes closed in the twelve months to November 2026 at a $649,000 median and about $271 a square foot, going under contract in a median 46 days at 98.0% of list. Those homes feed Overton Park Elementary — rated A, 94 out of 100 by the state — the same campus that serves Overton Park, where the median closing was $1,000,000.

That is a $351,000 difference for the same school zone — but read it correctly. You are not getting the same house for less. The Foster Park median was 2,315 square feet at $271 a foot; Overton Park’s was 3,154 square feet at $344. What Foster Park buys is the cheapest entry into that zone, in a smaller mid-century house. Most buyers never hear about the option, because Foster Park is small, it is platted under the Westcliff Addition name, and the MLS subdivision field does not tell you which side of the school line you are on. Two of the homes listed here in the past year were even tagged to the Tanglewood zone. If the school is the reason you are buying in 76109, this is the pocket to look at first.

Foster Park is the most uniform neighborhood in 76109. Every one of the 17 closings was a single-family house built between 1954 and 1963 — twelve in the 1950s, five in the 1960s. The median was a 1957 house of 2,315 square feet. Nothing older, nothing newer, no condos, no teardown rebuilds in the data at all. Compare that to Westcliff next door, where closings ran from a 1937 cottage to a 2026 new build. What you see on one street here is what you get on the next.

The line is South Drive. Foster Park is the pocket northeast of the I-20 and Hulen interchange, and South Drive is where the school zone changes: north of it the homes feed Overton Park Elementary, south of it they feed Westcliff Elementary, which the state rates a B at 82. Inwood Road runs across that boundary, which is exactly why it gets confused — the north end and the south end of the same street are in different zones and, for school purposes, different neighborhoods.

98.0% of list is the second-tightest number on any 76109 page we publish, behind Tanglewood at 98.2%. Sellers here are getting essentially their asking price. The 46-day median to contract is slower than Overton Park’s 24, but the discount off list is smaller, which tells you the pricing here is realistic rather than aspirational.

At this pull there were seven homes on the market with a median asking price of $575,000, plus one under contract. That is a usable number of options for a neighborhood that only closes about seventeen sales a year. Worth noting on the other side: 20 listings were cancelled or expired over the same twelve months, so roughly half the homes that came to market did not trade. A tight neighborhood does not mean an easy sale.

Being in 76109 is not the same as being in the zone. Attendance zones are drawn address by address, Fort Worth ISD is in the middle of a boundary revision running through 2029, and a transfer application is never a guarantee. On a street like Inwood that straddles the line, this is not a theoretical risk. I run that check for every client before they write an offer.

South of South Drive the same streets become Westcliff, wider in price and slower to sell. Overton Park shares the elementary zone at roughly half again the price. Tanglewood is the fastest market in 76109.

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