DIAMOND HILL EL

DIAMOND HILL EL operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in FORT WORTH, Texas, one of the schools within FORT WORTH ISD. Current enrollment sits at 482 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Within FORT WORTH ISD, which oversees 136 schools and 70,612 students, DIAMOND HILL EL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, DIAMOND HILL EL records that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 2% White. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, DIAMOND HILL EL has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 95% 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, DIAMOND HILL EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.6%, the actual is 23.7%, a residual of -8.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which DIAMOND HILL EL is one.

The closest other public school is DIAMOND HILL-JARVIS H S, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DIAMOND HILL EL at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 26.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. DIAMOND HILL EL's enrollment has shrank 29% since 2018, when it stood at 676 (now 482). Class-load math has tightened: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

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