[2] The school serves sections of Fort Worth and the FWISD portion of Forest Hill.

When the school opened, the student body chose its mascot, the chaparral, from Fort Worth's American Basketball League team, the Ft Worth Chaparrals.

In 2019 some area residents of Rosemont, in the portion zoned to Paschal, protested when they found the FWISD planned to rezone them to South Hills High School.

Ronald was arrested, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison as a juvenile.

Ronald and his younger brother James later gained infamy for a series of violent holdups and murders in the Fort Worth area; January–March 1985.