JOHN T WHITE EL

Set in FORT WORTH, Texas, JOHN T WHITE EL is a low-enrollment elementary campus, run under FORT WORTH ISD. It instructs 369 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 29% leaner than typical.

FORT WORTH ISD runs 136 schools in total, collectively educating 70,612 students. JOHN T WHITE EL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, JOHN T WHITE EL records that the largest single group is Black, at 61% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 33% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 18% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. 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. That share is north of Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

With demographic context factored in, JOHN T WHITE EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.4%; this one delivers 24.8%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put median household income runs about $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), JOHN T WHITE EL is one campus in the mix.

UPLIFT CRESCENDO PREP PS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, JOHN T WHITE EL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 25.6%.

JOHN T WHITE EL operates from an urban location. JOHN T WHITE EL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 37%: 586 students in 2018 compared to 369 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 17% to 33% over that span.

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