BENBROOK MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL

Set in FORT WORTH, Texas, BENBROOK MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL is a sprawling 9-12 campus, one of the schools within FORT WORTH ISD. It enrolls 1,478 students across grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so BENBROOK MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL sits 86% larger than that benchmark.

BENBROOK MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL is one of 136 schools operated by FORT WORTH ISD, a district that works with 70,612 students overall.

In terms of who attends, BENBROOK MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 37% Hispanic, 7% Black, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BENBROOK MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL has 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 44% of students at BENBROOK MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Tarrant County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, BENBROOK MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.5%, the actual is 43.3%, a residual of -11.2 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate median household earnings sit near $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. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), BENBROOK MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is WESTPARK EL, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BENBROOK MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BENBROOK MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 41.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. BENBROOK MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 8% since 2018, when it stood at 1,598 (now 1,478).

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