GREAT HEARTS LAKESIDE

GREAT HEARTS LAKESIDE operates as a sprawling K-12 campus in FORT WORTH, Texas, run under GREAT HEARTS TEXAS. Current enrollment sits at 1,279 students spanning grades K through 9. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 485 students each, so GREAT HEARTS LAKESIDE sits 164% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 13 schools in GREAT HEARTS TEXAS (12,926 students total), GREAT HEARTS LAKESIDE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, GREAT HEARTS LAKESIDE lists that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 25% Hispanic, 10% Black, 8% Asian, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 26% of students at GREAT HEARTS LAKESIDE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Tarrant County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, GREAT HEARTS LAKESIDE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.7%, the actual is 51.6%, a residual of -11.1 points.

In the broader community, Tarrant County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. GREAT HEARTS LAKESIDE is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).

Nearest neighbor: SUE CROUCH EL, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GREAT HEARTS LAKESIDE ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 34.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area. GREAT HEARTS LAKESIDE operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.