DE ZAVALA EL

DE ZAVALA EL operates as a small K-5 school in FORT WORTH, Texas, operated by FORT WORTH ISD. Current enrollment sits at 274 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 47% smaller than the state mean of about 519.

FORT WORTH ISD runs 136 schools in total, collectively educating 70,612 students. DE ZAVALA EL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, DE ZAVALA EL records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 68%. Other groups include 16% Black, 12% White, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 76% of students at DE ZAVALA EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, DE ZAVALA EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.9%, the actual is 54.4%, a residual of +13.5 points.

Across the wider county, Tarrant County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. DE ZAVALA EL is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).

KI CHARTER - FORT WORTH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DE ZAVALA EL. On composite proficiency, DE ZAVALA EL comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 38.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DE ZAVALA EL has declined 10%, going from 303 students in 2018 to 274 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 20% to 16% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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