A M PATE EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 7 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 13 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About A M PATE EL
Set in FORT WORTH, Texas, A M PATE EL is a compact elementary school, operated by FORT WORTH ISD. It educates 227 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 56% below the state mean of about 519.
FORT WORTH ISD comprises 136 schools with combined enrollment of 70,612 students; A M PATE EL is among them.
On demographics, A M PATE EL records that the largest single group is Black, at 76% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 18% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, A M PATE EL records 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at A M PATE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Tarrant County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), A M PATE EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.9%; this one delivers 22.6%.
In the broader community, Tarrant County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. A M PATE EL is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).
CHRISTENE C MOSS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, A M PATE EL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 29.4%.
The school occupies a metropolitan site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 57%: 522 students in 2018 compared to 227 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.
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