DAVID L WALKER ELT

DAVID L WALKER ELT is an elementary campus of compact scale in FORT WORTH, Texas, run under CROWLEY ISD, serveing 434 students in grades pre-K through 5.

CROWLEY ISD runs 24 schools in total, collectively educating 17,011 students. DAVID L WALKER ELT is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DAVID L WALKER ELT shows that the most-represented group is Black (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 38% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, DAVID L WALKER ELT has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 89% 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 meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DAVID L WALKER ELT performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.0%, the actual is 35.9%, a residual of +0.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put 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 DAVID L WALKER ELT is one.

Nearest neighbor: SIDNEY H POYNTER, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DAVID L WALKER ELT ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 36.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 28%: 603 students in 2018 compared to 434 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 32% to 38% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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