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Enrollment
470
High
DISTRICT 841 · STATE 796
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORT WORTH ISD·NCES 481970013388
IM TERRELL ACADEMY FOR STEM AND VPA
1900 IM TERRELL WAY, FORT WORTH, TX 76102 · (817) 814-2350 · Tarrant County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL470 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
229 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
78.0%
TX avg 51.8% . -1.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
47.0%
TX avg 42.0%
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are down about 1 points since 2020.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
69.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.6%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 53% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
About IM TERRELL ACADEMY FOR STEM AND VPA
IM TERRELL ACADEMY FOR STEM AND VPA operates as a low-enrollment 9-12 campus in FORT WORTH, Texas, one of the schools within FORT WORTH ISD. Current enrollment sits at 470 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 41% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
Within FORT WORTH ISD, which oversees 136 schools and 70,612 students, IM TERRELL ACADEMY FOR STEM AND VPA is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, IM TERRELL ACADEMY FOR STEM AND VPA records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 33% White, 23% Black, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.
Looking at school resources, On paper, IM TERRELL ACADEMY FOR STEM AND VPA has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting IM TERRELL ACADEMY FOR STEM AND VPA tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, IM TERRELL ACADEMY FOR STEM AND VPA is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 52.6%; this one delivers 69.5%, a residual of +16.9 points.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Tarrant County) logs that median household income runs about $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which IM TERRELL ACADEMY FOR STEM AND VPA is one.
Nearest neighbor: TEXANS CAN ACADEMY - FORT WORTH LANCASTER AVENUE, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around IM TERRELL ACADEMY FOR STEM AND VPA. On composite proficiency, IM TERRELL ACADEMY FOR STEM AND VPA comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.6%.
The school occupies an urban site.
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Tarrant County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,167,390
Census ACS
Median income
$84,207
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
639
385,835 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FORT WORTH ISD
- PASCHAL H SHigh · 2,127 students
- TRIMBLE TECHNICAL H SHigh · 1,924 students
- ARLINGTON HEIGHTS H SHigh · 1,898 students
- SOUTH HILLS H SHigh · 1,846 students
- NORTH SIDE H SHigh · 1,676 students
- O D WYATT H SHigh · 1,499 students
Other schools in FORT WORTH
- V R EATON H SHigh · 3,288 students
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- NORTH CROWLEY H SHigh · 2,936 students
- BOSWELL H SHigh · 2,445 students
- CHISHOLM TRAIL H SHigh · 2,258 students
- PASCHAL H SHigh · 2,127 students
Nearby schools
- TEXANS CAN ACADEMY - FORT WORTH LANCASTER AVENUE0.2 mi · 319
- VAN ZANDT-GUINN EL0.8 mi · 366
- YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY0.8 mi · 403
- VERSIA WILLIAMS EL0.8 mi · 307
- PREMIER H S - FORT WORTH (SOUTHSIDE)1.2 mi · 118
- TEXASWORKS - FT WORTH-SOUTHSIDE1.2 mi · 8
Frequently asked questions
About IM TERRELL ACADEMY FOR STEM AND VPAHow many students attend IM TERRELL ACADEMY FOR STEM AND VPA?
IM TERRELL ACADEMY FOR STEM AND VPA enrolls approximately 470 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does IM TERRELL ACADEMY FOR STEM AND VPA serve?
IM TERRELL ACADEMY FOR STEM AND VPA serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does IM TERRELL ACADEMY FOR STEM AND VPA have?
IM TERRELL ACADEMY FOR STEM AND VPA employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.9:1.
What is the student diversity at IM TERRELL ACADEMY FOR STEM AND VPA?
Student demographics at IM TERRELL ACADEMY FOR STEM AND VPA are roughly 33% White, 40% Hispanic, 23% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees IM TERRELL ACADEMY FOR STEM AND VPA?
IM TERRELL ACADEMY FOR STEM AND VPA is overseen by FORT WORTH ISD in Tarrant County.
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