ELDER MIDDLE

ELDER MIDDLE operates as a mid-tier 6-8 campus in FORT WORTH, Texas, overseen by FORT WORTH ISD. Current enrollment sits at 646 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

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

Demographically, ELDER MIDDLE lists that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 2% Black. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ELDER MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.6%; this one delivers 26.1%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Tarrant County) shows that 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 ELDER MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: MANUEL JARA EL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ELDER MIDDLE. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ELDER MIDDLE ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 26.2%.

ELDER MIDDLE operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. ELDER MIDDLE's enrollment has fell 50% since 2018, when it stood at 1,290 (now 646). Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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