ACADEMY AT CARRIE F THOMAS

Set in NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, Texas, ACADEMY AT CARRIE F THOMAS is a medium-sized elementary school, one of the schools within BIRDVILLE ISD. It enrolls 586 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Within BIRDVILLE ISD, which oversees 30 schools and 22,267 students, ACADEMY AT CARRIE F THOMAS is one campus in the system.

On demographics, ACADEMY AT CARRIE F THOMAS lists that 48% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 25% Black, 17% White, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 76% of students at ACADEMY AT CARRIE F THOMAS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ACADEMY AT CARRIE F THOMAS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.9%, the actual is 41.3%, a residual of +0.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate median household income runs about $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which ACADEMY AT CARRIE F THOMAS is one.

WALKER CREEK EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ACADEMY AT CARRIE F THOMAS. On composite proficiency, ACADEMY AT CARRIE F THOMAS comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 62.6%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 627 students in 2018 compared to 586 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 31% to 17%.

Inside the community feed, the feed for ACADEMY AT CARRIE F THOMAS typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.