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CROWLEY MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 6 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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 CROWLEY MIDDLE
Set in FORT WORTH, Texas, CROWLEY MIDDLE is a mid-sized middle school, overseen by CROWLEY ISD. It enrolls 821 students across grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 28% above typical.
CROWLEY ISD comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 17,011 students; CROWLEY MIDDLE is among them.
In terms of who attends, CROWLEY MIDDLE reports that 59% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school reports 28% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 18% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, CROWLEY MIDDLE has 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting CROWLEY MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, CROWLEY MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.1%; this one delivers 28.9%.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put median household earnings sit near $84,207, 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 CROWLEY MIDDLE is one.
JACKIE CARDEN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CROWLEY MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CROWLEY MIDDLE at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 36.8%.
The campus sits in a downtown setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 21%: 681 students in 2018 compared to 821 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share grew from 47% to 59%.
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