ELKINS EL

ELKINS EL is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary-level communitys in FORT WORTH, Texas, overseen by EAGLE MT-SAGINAW ISD, with 654 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 26% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Within EAGLE MT-SAGINAW ISD, which oversees 32 schools and 23,982 students, ELKINS EL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, ELKINS EL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 25% Black, 22% White, 11% Asian, 7% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 58% of students at ELKINS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, ELKINS EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.1%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate median household income runs about $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which ELKINS EL is one.

ALTER DISCIPLINE CAMPUS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ELKINS EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 106%: 318 students in 2018 compared to 654 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 12% to 25% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the ELKINS EL community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.