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Enrollment
651
Elementary
DISTRICT 590 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD ISD·NCES 482406002661
Bedford Heights Elementary School
1000 CUMMINGS DR, BEDFORD, TX 76021 · (817) 399-3010 · Tarrant County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL651 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 93% of Texas public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.6:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
173 students
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 47 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 80 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 95 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 88 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 110 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 27% smaller than its 6th grade class (110).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
82.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +32.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
79.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +11.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 79 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 32 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 11 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 55.0% | 27.0% | 11.0% | 7.0% |
| Mathematics | 46.0% | 33.0% | 14.0% | 7.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 82.0% | 79.0% |
| 2024-25 | 82.0% | 77.0% |
| 2023-24 | 79.0% | 75.0% |
| 2022-23 | 76.0% | 77.0% |
| 2021-22 | 63.0% | 79.0% |
| 2020-21 | 50.0% | 68.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
73.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.3%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bedford Heights Elementary School
Bedford Heights Elementary School's state test result (73.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bedford Heights Elementary School this school | 651 | 26.6% | 73.9% |
| Dorothy Smith Pullen Elementary School ROCKWALL | 616 | 25.6% | 67.5% |
| Mockingbird Elementary School DALLAS | 630 | 24.9% | 68.2% |
| Meadow Wood Elementary School HOUSTON | 686 | 28.1% | 60.3% |
| Deerwood Elementary School KINGWOOD | 641 | 23.7% | 51.5% |
| Ed H White Elementary School EL LAGO | 644 | 31.4% | 55.3% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bedford Heights Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Tarrant County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.9% | #216 of 4,401 | #13 of 330 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #154 of 4,466 ▲ 64 | #11 of 339 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #197 of 4,466 ▲ 35 | #15 of 339 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.0pp | #2,280 of 3,998 | #172 of 320 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 651 | #1,243 of 4,938 | #64 of 353 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.6:1 | #4,312 of 4,622 | #334 of 348 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.7% | #1,163 of 4,628 | #153 of 348 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.6% | #4,296 of 4,789 | #316 of 341 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.3% | #1,401 of 2,838 | #133 of 242 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
651
-15 (-2%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 814
Student : Teacher
18.6:1
was 17.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 651 | 35.1 | 18.6:1 | 27% (173) |
| 2023-24 | 638 | 35.7 | 17.9:1 | 27% (170) |
| 2022-23 | 643 | 36.6 | 17.6:1 | 27% (174) |
| 2020-21 | 666 | 38 | 17.5:1 | 19% (127) |
| 2017-18 | 787 | 42.3 | 18.6:1 | 19% (152) |
| 2015-16 | 771 | 41 | 18.8:1 | 20% (157) |
| 2010-11 | 665 | 38 | 17.5:1 | 20% (131) |
| 2000-01 | 654 | 40 | 16.4:1 | 7% (43) |
| 1990-91 | 814 | 41 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bedford Heights Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (787 to 651); teachers down 17% (42.3 to 35.1).
About Bedford Heights Elementary School
Bedford Heights Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Texas, located in BEDFORD. The school counts 651 students across pre-K through 6. The school's enrollment is 25% above the 519 average for elementary schools in Texas.
HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD ISD (31 schools, 23,262 students) runs Bedford Heights Elementary School.
Bedford Heights Elementary School's enrollment is 54% White. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 8% Black, and 3% Asian. By the diversity index, Bedford Heights Elementary School comes in at 63%.
Bedford Heights Elementary School's 35.1 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 18.6:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Texas average 15.1:1. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 27%. The rate at public schools in Tarrant County averages 63%, higher than here.
Bedford Heights Elementary School is graded A by allk12, scoring above 93% of Texas public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Bedford Heights Elementary School is 11.5 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (73.9% versus 62.3%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Texas.
Bedford Heights Elementary School is located in Tarrant County, where median household income is about $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 639 public schools in Tarrant County, with a combined enrollment of about 385,835.
Shady Brook Elementary School is located about 0.7 miles from Bedford Heights Elementary School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, Bedford Heights Elementary School is ahead of the 62.3% nearby average, ranking 1st of 9.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (666) and 2024-25 (651). The ratio was 17.5:1 in 2020-21 and 18.6:1 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Tarrant County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,167,390
Census ACS
Median income
$84,207
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
639
385,835 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD ISD
- Trinity High SchoolHigh · 2,734 students
- Bell High SchoolHigh · 2,411 students
- Euless Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,075 students
- Central Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,061 students
- Harwood Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,024 students
- Bedford Junior High SchoolMiddle · 968 students
Other schools in BEDFORD
- Harwood Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,024 students
- Bedford Junior High SchoolMiddle · 968 students
- Meadow Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 649 students
- Bell Manor Elementary SchoolElementary · 610 students
- Spring Garden Elementary SchoolElementary · 599 students
- Shady Brook Elementary SchoolElementary · 582 students
Nearby schools
- Shady Brook Elementary School0.7 mi · 582
- Bedford Junior High School0.8 mi · 968
- Spring Garden Elementary School1.3 mi · 599
- Bell High School1.4 mi · 2,411
- Bransford Elementary School1.4 mi · 454
- Stonegate Elementary School1.7 mi · 472
Frequently asked questions
About Bedford Heights Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Bedford Heights Elementary School?
Bedford Heights Elementary School enrolls approximately 651 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Bedford Heights Elementary School serve?
Bedford Heights Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Bedford Heights Elementary School?
Approximately 18.6:1 students per teacher at Bedford Heights Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Bedford Heights Elementary School?
At Bedford Heights Elementary School, the student body is approximately 54% White, 25% Hispanic, 8% Black, 3% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Bedford Heights Elementary School public or private?
Bedford Heights Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.