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BIRDVILLE H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 32 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 15 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 BIRDVILLE H S
BIRDVILLE H S is a high school of sprawling scale in NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, Texas, part of BIRDVILLE ISD, instructing 2,069 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 160% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
BIRDVILLE ISD comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 22,267 students; BIRDVILLE H S is among them.
On the student-mix side, BIRDVILLE H S records that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 34% Hispanic, 12% Black, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Tarrant County as a whole.
In terms of school funding signals, BIRDVILLE H S lists 120 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting BIRDVILLE H S higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.
After controlling for student poverty, BIRDVILLE H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.2%, the actual is 62.4%, a residual of +6.2 points.
Across the wider county, census data for Tarrant County shows 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), BIRDVILLE H S is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: WALKER CREEK EL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BIRDVILLE H S. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BIRDVILLE H S ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 64.6%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 2,074 students in 2018 compared to 2,069 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 53% to 46% over that span.
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