ATWOOD MCDONALD EL

ATWOOD MCDONALD EL is one of the low-enrollment elementary schools in FORT WORTH, Texas, run under FORT WORTH ISD, with 261 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 50% smaller than typical.

FORT WORTH ISD comprises 136 schools with combined enrollment of 70,612 students; ATWOOD MCDONALD EL is among them.

In terms of who attends, ATWOOD MCDONALD EL lists that 69% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest consists of 21% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% White, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, ATWOOD MCDONALD EL records 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.2:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 95% of students at ATWOOD MCDONALD EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ATWOOD MCDONALD EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.4%, the actual is 27.3%, a residual of -5.1 points.

In the broader community, Tarrant County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 ATWOOD MCDONALD EL is one.

NEWMAN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY AT FORT WORTH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ATWOOD MCDONALD EL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 24.3%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ATWOOD MCDONALD EL has decreased 47%, going from 494 students in 2018 to 261 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 77% to 69% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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