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What advice would you give to incoming students at ED WILLKIE MIDDLE?
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Enrollment
775
Middle
DISTRICT 777 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAGLE MT-SAGINAW ISD·NCES 481770012120
Ed Willkie Middle School
6129 TEXAS SHINER RD, FORT WORTH, TX 76179 · (817) 237-9631 · Tarrant County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL775 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 25% of Texas public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.0:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
383 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 255 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 265 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 255 | 33% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
52.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +14.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
38.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +8.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 14 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 8 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 27.0% | 25.0% | 23.0% | 25.0% |
| Mathematics | 18.0% | 20.0% | 22.0% | 40.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 52.0% | 38.0% |
| 2024-25 | 47.0% | 37.0% |
| 2023-24 | 50.0% | 38.0% |
| 2022-23 | 48.0% | 43.0% |
| 2021-22 | 49.0% | 41.0% |
| 2020-21 | 38.0% | 30.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
41.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.6%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ed Willkie Middle School
Ed Willkie Middle School's state test result (41.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ed Willkie Middle School this school | 775 | 49.4% | 41.5% |
| Finley Junior High School WAXAHACHIE | 839 | 49.9% | 42.7% |
| Jerry R Walker Middle School LITTLE ELM | 885 | 52.5% | 40.5% |
| Linda Jobe Middle School MANSFIELD | 820 | 54.1% | 49.2% |
| Coleman Junior High School WAXAHACHIE | 775 | 47.4% | 49.1% |
| Audie Murphy Middle School FORT CAVAZOS | 768 | 51.3% | 40.2% |
Matched among Texas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ed Willkie Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Tarrant County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.5% | #872 of 1,635 | #58 of 108 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #1,012 of 1,670 ▼ 18 | #63 of 112 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #944 of 1,670 ▲ 148 | #67 of 112 ▲ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.5pp | #216 of 1,570 | #21 of 110 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 775 | #609 of 1,749 | #44 of 115 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #1,182 of 1,542 | #82 of 112 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.1% | #194 of 1,543 | #33 of 112 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.4% | #1,159 of 1,648 | #77 of 109 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.2% | #365 of 942 | #32 of 74 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
775
+65 (+9%) vs 2020
+1% since 2010-11, when it was 765
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 14.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 775 | 47.5 | 16.3:1 | 49% (383) |
| 2023-24 | 762 | 49.8 | 15.3:1 | 55% (416) |
| 2022-23 | 730 | 46.6 | 15.7:1 | 48% (352) |
| 2020-21 | 710 | 49 | 14.5:1 | 40% (284) |
| 2017-18 | 959 | 56.6 | 17.0:1 | 43% (412) |
| 2015-16 | 901 | 51 | 17.7:1 | 41% (368) |
| 2010-11 | 765 | 50 | 15.3:1 | 44% (338) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ed Willkie Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (959 to 775); teachers down 16% (56.6 to 47.5).
About Ed Willkie Middle School
As a mid-sized middle school, Ed Willkie Middle School serves students in FORT WORTH, Texas. The school runs grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 775 students. Middle schools in Texas have about 643 students on average; enrollment here is 21% higher.
EAGLE MT-SAGINAW ISD is responsible for 32 schools, Ed Willkie Middle School included, with 23,982 students in all.
Of every 100 students at Ed Willkie Middle School, about 41 are Hispanic, the largest group. After that, the student body is 31% White, 20% Black, 5% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Census figures show Tarrant County is about 30% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 69, compared with 70 nationally.
For every teacher at Ed Willkie Middle School, there are about 16.3 students; the school has 47.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in Texas, 14.4:1, is lower. There are 383 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 49% of enrollment. Among public schools in Tarrant County, the average eligibility rate is 63%.
Ed Willkie Middle School holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 25% of Texas public middle schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Ed Willkie Middle School would be expected to post about 52.6%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 41.5%.
Tarrant County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $84,207 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 35% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Public schools in Tarrant County number 639, with about 385,835 students.
Among nearby public schools, Greenfield Elementary School is closest at about 0.6 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Ed Willkie Middle School. By average proficiency, Ed Willkie Middle School is 3rd among 7 schools close by.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Large.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 9% rise, from 710 to 775. The ratio was 14.5:1 in 2020-21 and 16.3:1 in 2024-25.
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Tarrant County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,167,390
Census ACS
Median income
$84,207
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
639
385,835 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in EAGLE MT-SAGINAW ISD
- Boswell High SchoolHigh · 2,445 students
- Chisholm Trail High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- Saginaw High SchoolHigh · 2,013 students
- Wayside Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,119 students
- Creekview Middle SchoolMiddle · 962 students
- Prairie VistaMiddle · 958 students
Other schools in FORT WORTH
- V R Eaton High SchoolHigh · 3,288 students
- Timber Creek High SchoolHigh · 2,970 students
- North Crowley High SchoolHigh · 2,936 students
- Boswell High SchoolHigh · 2,445 students
- Chisholm Trail High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- Paschal High SchoolHigh · 2,127 students
Nearby schools
- Greenfield Elementary School0.6 mi · 620
- Dozier Elementary School0.7 mi · 714
- Parkview Elementary School0.8 mi · 588
- Creekview Middle School1.1 mi · 962
- Alter Discipline Campus1.3 mi · 51
- Elmer C Watson High School1.3 mi · 90
Frequently asked questions
About Ed Willkie Middle SchoolHow many students attend Ed Willkie Middle School?
Ed Willkie Middle School enrolls approximately 775 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Ed Willkie Middle School serve?
Ed Willkie Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Ed Willkie Middle School have?
Ed Willkie Middle School employs 48 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Ed Willkie Middle School?
Student demographics at Ed Willkie Middle School are roughly 31% White, 41% Hispanic, 20% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Ed Willkie Middle School in?
Ed Willkie Middle School is part of EAGLE MT-SAGINAW ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.