HIGH COUNTRY EL

Located at 1301 HIGH COUNTRY TRL, in FORT WORTH, Texas, HIGH COUNTRY EL is a mid-sized elementary school that instructs 511 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by EAGLE MT-SAGINAW ISD.

EAGLE MT-SAGINAW ISD comprises 32 schools with combined enrollment of 23,982 students; HIGH COUNTRY EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, HIGH COUNTRY EL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 29% White, 22% Black, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, HIGH COUNTRY EL has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.5:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Tarrant County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, HIGH COUNTRY EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 50.5%; HIGH COUNTRY EL posts 32.4%, -18.1 points below that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put 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), HIGH COUNTRY EL is one campus in the mix.

HIGHLAND MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HIGH COUNTRY EL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HIGH COUNTRY EL has contracted 4%, going from 532 students in 2018 to 511 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 45% to 29% across the same window.

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