HILLWOOD MIDDLE

Set in FORT WORTH, Texas, HILLWOOD MIDDLE is a large middle school, part of KELLER ISD. It educates 1,126 students across grades 7 through 8. That puts it 75% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

Within KELLER ISD, which oversees 42 schools and 32,042 students, HILLWOOD MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, HILLWOOD MIDDLE lists that the largest single group is White at 40%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 28% Hispanic, 12% Black, 10% Asian, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 48% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HILLWOOD MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.6%, the actual is 61.1%, a residual of +3.5 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate 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 HILLWOOD MIDDLE is one.

PARKWOOD HILL INT is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HILLWOOD MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HILLWOOD MIDDLE at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 64.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HILLWOOD MIDDLE has shrank 3%, going from 1,165 students in 2018 to 1,126 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 52% to 40% across the same window.

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