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ALICE D CONTRERAS
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 16 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 32 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 ALICE D CONTRERAS
ALICE D CONTRERAS is one of the mid-sized elementary schools in FORT WORTH, Texas, part of FORT WORTH ISD, with 442 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.
FORT WORTH ISD comprises 136 schools with combined enrollment of 70,612 students; ALICE D CONTRERAS is among them.
Demographically, ALICE D CONTRERAS logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%); the rest reads as 3% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.
In terms of school funding signals, ALICE D CONTRERAS lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ALICE D CONTRERAS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.7%; this one delivers 39.4%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate median household income runs about $84,207, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which ALICE D CONTRERAS is one.
Nearest neighbor: APPLIED LEARNING ACAD, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ALICE D CONTRERAS comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.7%.
The school occupies a city-core site.
Looking at the recent track record. ALICE D CONTRERAS's enrollment has decreased 34% since 2018, when it stood at 668 (now 442). Class-load math has fell: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.
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