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EASTERN HILLS H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About EASTERN HILLS H S
As a mid-tier four-year high school in FORT WORTH, Texas, EASTERN HILLS H S hosts 1,189 students from grades 9 through 12, part of FORT WORTH ISD. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 49% bigger than typical.
EASTERN HILLS H S is one of 136 schools operated by FORT WORTH ISD, a district that enrolls 70,612 students overall.
On the student-mix side, EASTERN HILLS H S lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 44% Black, 4% White, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, EASTERN HILLS H S has 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Tarrant County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, EASTERN HILLS H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.0%, the actual is 27.5%, a residual of -7.5 points.
In the area at large, Tarrant County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. EASTERN HILLS H S is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).
EASTERN HILLS 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 EASTERN HILLS H S. On composite proficiency, EASTERN HILLS H S comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 22.6%.
The campus sits in an inner-city setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 3%: 1,150 students in 2018 compared to 1,189 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 56% to 44% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.
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