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CLIFFORD DAVIS EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CLIFFORD DAVIS EL
CLIFFORD DAVIS EL is one of the sizable elementary schools in FT WORTH, Texas, operated by FORT WORTH ISD, with 868 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 67% bigger than the state mean of about 519.
FORT WORTH ISD comprises 136 schools with combined enrollment of 70,612 students; CLIFFORD DAVIS EL is among them.
Demographically, CLIFFORD DAVIS EL shows that the most-represented group is Black (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 19% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 17% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 18% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, CLIFFORD DAVIS EL has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is north of typical.
With demographic context factored in, CLIFFORD DAVIS EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 31.3%; CLIFFORD DAVIS EL posts 7.7%, -23.6 points below that line.
In the surrounding community, census data for Tarrant County shows the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which CLIFFORD DAVIS EL is one.
The closest other public school is TRINITY CHARTER SCHOOLS - FORT WORTH CAMPUS, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CLIFFORD DAVIS EL. On composite proficiency, CLIFFORD DAVIS EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 34.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 10%: 789 students in 2018 compared to 868 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share edged down from 31% to 19%. Class-load math has widened: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 in 2025.
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