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Enrollment
646
Middle
DISTRICT 591 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORT WORTH ISD·NCES 481970001859
Elder Middle School
709 NW 21ST, FORT WORTH, TX 76164 · (817) 814-4100 · Tarrant County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL646 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
610 students
DISTRICT 84% · 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 | 213 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 209 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 224 | 35% |
Student demographics
8%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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
39.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +10.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
34.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +18.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 10 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 18 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 14.0% | 25.0% | 26.0% | 35.0% |
| Mathematics | 16.0% | 18.0% | 24.0% | 42.0% |
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 | 39.0% | 34.0% |
| 2024-25 | 34.0% | 22.0% |
| 2023-24 | 28.0% | 20.0% |
| 2022-23 | 23.0% | 16.0% |
| 2021-22 | 28.0% | 17.0% |
| 2020-21 | 29.0% | 16.0% |
% 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
23.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.4%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 Elder Middle School
Elder Middle School's state test result (23.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elder Middle School this school | 646 | 94.4% | 23.9% |
| Cunningham Middle at South Park CORPUS CHRISTI | 706 | 94.1% | 26.5% |
| Meacham Middle School FORT WORTH | 680 | 94.3% | 25.5% |
| Hot Wells Middle School SAN ANTONIO | 595 | 93.9% | 19.1% |
| Southmore Intermediate School PASADENA | 673 | 93.3% | 36.9% |
| Grulla Middle School GRULLA | 632 | 94.9% | 35.2% |
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 Elder Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Tarrant County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.9% | #1,539 of 1,635 | #95 of 108 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #1,188 of 1,670 ▲ 341 | #76 of 112 ▲ 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #1,480 of 1,670 ▲ 57 | #95 of 112 ▲ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +17.0pp | #405 of 1,570 | #15 of 110 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 646 | #849 of 1,749 | #65 of 115 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #701 of 1,542 | #40 of 112 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 8.1% | #1,410 of 1,543 | #112 of 112 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.4% | #125 of 1,648 | #9 of 109 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -49.9% | #15 of 942 | #1 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
646
-441 (-41%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 916
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 646 | 45 | 14.4:1 | 94% (610) |
| 2023-24 | 763 | 52.3 | 14.6:1 | 89% (677) |
| 2022-23 | 826 | 54 | 15.3:1 | 92% (762) |
| 2020-21 | 1,087 | 69 | 15.8:1 | 94% (1,024) |
| 2017-18 | 1,290 | 69.1 | 18.7:1 | 84% (1,085) |
| 2015-16 | 1,245 | 68 | 18.3:1 | 88% (1,094) |
| 2010-11 | 1,146 | 69 | 16.6:1 | 87% (995) |
| 2000-01 | 1,151 | 67 | 17.2:1 | 82% (941) |
| 1990-91 | 916 | 51 | 18.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Elder Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 50% (1,290 to 646); teachers down 35% (69.1 to 45).
About Elder Middle School
Elder Middle School is a public mid-sized middle school in FORT WORTH, Texas. It had 646 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 6 through 8.
FORT WORTH ISD is the local district for Elder Middle School. It runs 136 schools with 70,612 students.
By race and ethnicity, Elder Middle School is 96% Hispanic. The remaining shares are 2% Black. Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 8, compared with 70 nationally.
There are 45 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 14.4:1. It is about the same as the 14.4:1 average for middle schools in Texas. Of all students at Elder Middle School, 94% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Tarrant County is 63%.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Elder Middle School would score about 33.4%. It scores 23.9%, 9.4 points below that figure.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Tarrant County show that the median household earns about $84,207 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Tarrant County has 639 public schools with about 385,835 students, including Elder Middle School.
Manuel Jara Elementary School is about 0.1 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Elder Middle School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Elder Middle School at 5th of 6.
Elder Middle School is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels City: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, reported enrollment went from 1,087 to 646. Such a large difference may reflect a change in the grades served. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 15.8:1 to 14.4:1.
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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 FORT WORTH ISD
- Paschal High SchoolHigh · 2,127 students
- Trimble Technical High SchoolHigh · 1,924 students
- Arlington Heights High SchoolHigh · 1,898 students
- South Hills High SchoolHigh · 1,846 students
- North Side High SchoolHigh · 1,676 students
- O D Wyatt High SchoolHigh · 1,499 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
- Manuel Jara Elementary School0.1 mi · 567
- Rufino Mendoza Sr Elementary School0.6 mi · 342
- North Side High School0.8 mi · 1,676
- Sam Rosen Elementary School1.0 mi · 407
- Kirkpatrick Middle School1.5 mi · 485
- Bridge Assoc1.5 mi · 7
Frequently asked questions
About Elder Middle SchoolHow large is Elder Middle School?
Elder Middle School enrolls approximately 646 students in grades 06-08.
Is Elder Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Elder Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Elder Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Elder Middle School is approximately 14.4:1 (45 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Elder Middle School?
At Elder Middle School, the student body is approximately 2% White, 96% Hispanic, 2% Black, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees Elder Middle School?
Elder Middle School is overseen by FORT WORTH ISD in Tarrant County.
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