WILLIAM JAMES MIDDLE

Set in FORT WORTH, Texas, WILLIAM JAMES MIDDLE is an average-sized middle-grades school, part of FORT WORTH ISD. It teaches 710 students across grades 6 through 8.

FORT WORTH ISD runs 136 schools in total, collectively educating 70,612 students. WILLIAM JAMES MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WILLIAM JAMES MIDDLE lists that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder breaks down as 11% Black, 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, WILLIAM JAMES MIDDLE sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 32.4%; actual is 13.5%, a gap of -18.9 points.

In the area at large, census data for Tarrant County shows 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%. WILLIAM JAMES MIDDLE is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).

POLYTECHNIC H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WILLIAM JAMES MIDDLE at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 25.7%.

WILLIAM JAMES MIDDLE operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. WILLIAM JAMES MIDDLE's enrollment has fell 25% since 2018, when it stood at 950 (now 710). The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 20% to 11% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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