FOREST OAK MIDDLE

FOREST OAK MIDDLE is a 6-8 campus of sprawling scale in FORT WORTH, Texas, operated by FORT WORTH ISD, serveing 1,044 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so FOREST OAK MIDDLE sits 62% above that benchmark.

FOREST OAK MIDDLE is one of 136 schools operated by FORT WORTH ISD, a district that instructs 70,612 students overall.

On demographics, FOREST OAK MIDDLE records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 59%. Beyond that, the school logs 31% Black, 5% White, 4% Asian. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, FOREST OAK MIDDLE has 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting FOREST OAK MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, FOREST OAK MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.8%; this one delivers 33.0%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate median household income runs about $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), FOREST OAK MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

GLEN PARK EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, FOREST OAK MIDDLE comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 27.6%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. FOREST OAK MIDDLE is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FOREST OAK MIDDLE has grew 27%, going from 823 students in 2018 to 1,044 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 54% to 59% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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