BONNIE BRAE

BONNIE BRAE is one of the close-knit primary schools in FT WORTH, Texas, run under FORT WORTH ISD, with 326 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 37% below typical.

Across the 136 schools in FORT WORTH ISD (70,612 students total), BONNIE BRAE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, BONNIE BRAE lists that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 6% White. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 93% of students at BONNIE BRAE 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BONNIE BRAE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 21.6%, a residual of -11.8 points.

In the surrounding community, Tarrant County reports that median household earnings sit near $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), BONNIE BRAE is one campus in the mix.

SPRINGDALE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BONNIE BRAE ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 31.0%.

BONNIE BRAE operates from an urban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BONNIE BRAE has fell 30%, going from 468 students in 2018 to 326 in 2025.

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