ILTEXAS KELLER MIDDLE

ILTEXAS KELLER MIDDLE is a middle school of modestly sized scale in FORT WORTH, Texas, part of INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF TEXAS (ILTEXAS), educateing 440 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 32% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

Within INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF TEXAS (ILTEXAS), which oversees 44 schools and 25,497 students, ILTEXAS KELLER MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, ILTEXAS KELLER MIDDLE logs that 40% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 23% Black, 20% White, 15% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, ILTEXAS KELLER MIDDLE has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.1:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, ILTEXAS KELLER MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.1%; this one delivers 51.4%.

In the area at large, Tarrant County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), ILTEXAS KELLER MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

ILTEXAS KELLER EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ILTEXAS KELLER MIDDLE. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ILTEXAS KELLER MIDDLE ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 53.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area. ILTEXAS KELLER MIDDLE is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ILTEXAS KELLER MIDDLE has fell 3%, going from 453 students in 2018 to 440 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 32% to 20% over that span.

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