DONNA SHEPARD ACADEMY

DONNA SHEPARD ACADEMY, a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school in MANSFIELD, Texas, operated by MANSFIELD ISD, serves 819 students, covering grades 5 through 6. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so DONNA SHEPARD ACADEMY sits 27% larger than that benchmark.

DONNA SHEPARD ACADEMY is one of 47 schools operated by MANSFIELD ISD, a district that caters to 35,354 students overall.

Looking at the student body, DONNA SHEPARD ACADEMY lists that 41% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 33% White, 18% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, DONNA SHEPARD ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.8%; this one delivers 49.0%.

Around the school, census data for Tarrant County shows the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), DONNA SHEPARD ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

MANSFIELD FRONTIER STEM ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DONNA SHEPARD ACADEMY comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 62.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DONNA SHEPARD ACADEMY has held roughly steady, going from 838 students in 2018 to 819 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 43% to 33%.

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