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Enrollment
464
Elementary
DISTRICT 482 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KELLER ISD·NCES 482526011332
Friendship Elementary School
5400 SHIVER RD, KELLER, TX 76244 · (817) 744-6200 · Tarrant County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL464 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
302 students
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 44 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 103 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 26% smaller than its 4th grade class (103).
Student demographics
77%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
39.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +2.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
41.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +9.0pp 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 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 2 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 9 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 13.0% | 26.0% | 29.0% | 32.0% |
| Mathematics | 16.0% | 25.0% | 21.0% | 38.0% |
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% | 41.0% |
| 2024-25 | 46.0% | 46.0% |
| 2023-24 | 47.0% | 47.0% |
| 2022-23 | 52.0% | 43.0% |
| 2021-22 | 50.0% | 50.0% |
| 2020-21 | 37.0% | 32.0% |
% 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
50.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.9%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 Friendship Elementary School
Friendship Elementary School's state test result (50.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friendship Elementary School this school | 464 | 65.1% | 50.6% |
| Rock Prairie Elementary School COLLEGE STATION | 538 | 61.7% | 41.3% |
| Shady Brook Elementary School BEDFORD | 582 | 64.3% | 46.8% |
| Creek View Elementary School COLLEGE STATION | 437 | 58.4% | 52.3% |
| John D Spicer Elementary School HALTOM CITY | 431 | 67.7% | 42.4% |
| Holiday Heights Elementary School NORTH RICHLAND HILLS | 463 | 63.1% | 39.6% |
Matched among Texas elementary 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 Friendship Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Tarrant County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.6% | #1,373 of 4,401 | #81 of 330 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #2,755 of 4,466 ▼ 723 | #180 of 339 ▼ 52 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #3,767 of 4,466 ▼ 834 | #270 of 339 ▼ 81 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -7.5pp | #499 of 3,998 | #52 of 320 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 464 | #2,871 of 4,938 | #208 of 353 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #1,116 of 4,622 | #73 of 348 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.8% | #37 of 4,628 | #13 of 348 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.1% | #2,826 of 4,789 | #205 of 341 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.5% | #1,564 of 2,838 | #143 of 242 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
464
-123 (-21%) vs 2020
-32% since 2010-11, when it was 680
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 13.0:1
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 | 464 | 34.4 | 13.5:1 | 65% (302) |
| 2023-24 | 511 | 40 | 12.8:1 | 65% (332) |
| 2022-23 | 533 | 40.6 | 13.1:1 | 58% (311) |
| 2020-21 | 587 | 45 | 13.0:1 | 45% (265) |
| 2017-18 | 549 | 39 | 14.1:1 | 43% (235) |
| 2015-16 | 540 | 37 | 14.6:1 | 37% (201) |
| 2010-11 | 680 | 42 | 16.2:1 | 27% (181) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Friendship Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (549 to 464); teachers down 12% (39 to 34.4).
About Friendship Elementary School
KELLER, Texas, is home to Friendship Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. The school enrolls 464 students in pre-K through 4.
Friendship Elementary School is part of a district of 42 schools: KELLER ISD, with 32,042 students.
The student body at Friendship Elementary School has no majority group. White students lead at 31%. The next largest groups are 25% Black, 22% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, and 9% Asian. The school's White share is 17 points below the 48% share among Tarrant County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 77%.
The school lists 34.4 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.5:1. The average for elementary schools in Texas is 15.1:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. A total of 302 students, or 65%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 63% average for public schools in Tarrant County.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Friendship Elementary School is 45.9%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 50.6%.
In the surrounding county, Tarrant County, median household income comes to about $84,207, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. The county's public schools total 639, with about 385,835 students.
Central High School is about 0.7 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Friendship Elementary School ranks 9th of 9 on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school shrank from 587 students in 2020-21 to 464 in 2024-25.
This page is set up for the Friendship Elementary School community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 KELLER ISD
- Timber Creek High SchoolHigh · 2,970 students
- Keller High SchoolHigh · 2,951 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 2,410 students
- Fossil Ridge High SchoolHigh · 2,140 students
- Hillwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,126 students
- Parkwood Hill Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 1,022 students
Other schools in KELLER
- Keller High SchoolHigh · 2,951 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 2,410 students
- Fossil Ridge High SchoolHigh · 2,140 students
- Trinity Springs Middle SchoolMiddle · 931 students
- Bear Creek Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 904 students
- Keller Middle SchoolMiddle · 894 students
Other Friendship Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 6 states are named Friendship Elementary. Friendship Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 6.
- Friendship Elementary SchoolBuford, GA · 673 students
- Friendship ElementaryWinston-Salem, NC · 470 students
- FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOLDELTONA, FL · 429 students
- Friendship Elementary SchoolGlen Rock, PA · 377 students
- Friendship ElementaryFriendship, TN · 117 students
Nearby schools
- Central High School0.7 mi · 2,410
- Hillwood Middle School0.8 mi · 1,126
- Parkwood Hill Intermediate School0.9 mi · 1,022
- Keller Collegiate Academy1.0 mi · 296
- Lone Star Elementary School1.0 mi · 569
- Freedom Elementary School1.2 mi · 639
Frequently asked questions
About Friendship Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Friendship Elementary School?
Friendship Elementary School enrolls approximately 464 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does Friendship Elementary School serve?
Friendship Elementary School serves grades PK-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Friendship Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Friendship Elementary School is approximately 13.5:1 (34 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Friendship Elementary School?
At Friendship Elementary School, the student body is approximately 31% White, 22% Hispanic, 25% Black, 9% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is Friendship Elementary School in?
Friendship Elementary School is part of KELLER ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.