Dallas ISD News: Woodrow Wilson High School selects Paul Beattie as athletic coordinator, head football coach

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For Immediate Release: March 19, 2025

Woodrow Wilson High School selects Paul Beattie as athletic coordinator, head football coach

DALLAS - Woodrow Wilson High School has named Paul Beattie (pronounced bee-ah-tay) as its new athletic coordinator and head football coach. This is his first head football coaching position.

Beattie brings more than 25 years of experience serving as a history, government, and economics teacher, and coach. He most recently served as assistant head coach and co-defensive coordinator at DeSoto High School for 14 years, where he also helped guide five state championship teams as an assistant track & field coach. He previously coached at DeSoto from 2008 to 2011.

The DeSoto Eagles won back-to-back UIL 6A Division II state football championships in 2022 and 2023. In addition to coaching, Beattie served as the school's compliance coordinator and academic coordinator, coached defensive backs, and oversaw off-season football workout programs for both high school and junior high athletes.

Beattie previously taught and coached football at Ball High School in Galveston ISD, and at John B. Connally High School in Pflugerville ISD. He worked in Austin ISD at William B. Travis High School, Lyndon Baines Johnson High School, and at the former Albert Sidney Johnston High School.

Beattie graduated from Eagle Pass High School in 1992, where he was a member of the football and baseball teams. He was an all-district defensive end in football. His first coaching position was in Eagle Pass as the seventh grade boys' basketball coach from 1999 to 2000.

He earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1999. Beattie later completed a second bachelor's degree in social science in 2004 and earned an MBA from Sul Ross State University in 2014.

Beattie will begin his new role at Woodrow Wilson on Monday, March 24.