HARLEAN BEAL EL

HARLEAN BEAL EL operates as a tight-knit primary school in FORT WORTH, Texas, overseen by FORT WORTH ISD. Current enrollment sits at 333 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 36% below typical.

FORT WORTH ISD comprises 136 schools with combined enrollment of 70,612 students; HARLEAN BEAL EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HARLEAN BEAL EL reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 68%; the rest comes out to 28% Black, 2% White. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Tarrant County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, HARLEAN BEAL EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.3%, the actual is 28.8%, a residual of -3.5 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Tarrant County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which HARLEAN BEAL EL is one.

TARRANT CO COLLEGE SOUTH/FORT WORTH COLLEGIATE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HARLEAN BEAL EL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 36.6%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HARLEAN BEAL EL has declined 26%, going from 448 students in 2018 to 333 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 38% to 28% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 today.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.