JOY JAMES ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP

JOY JAMES ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP operates as a medium-sized elementary-level community in FORT WORTH, Texas, run under CASTLEBERRY ISD. Current enrollment sits at 471 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

JOY JAMES ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP is one of 7 schools operated by CASTLEBERRY ISD, a district that instructs 3,851 students overall.

Looking at the student body, JOY JAMES ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP records that nearly all students (85%) are Hispanic. The remainder is composed of 8% White, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

With demographic context factored in, JOY JAMES ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.9%; this one delivers 41.6%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put median household earnings sit near $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. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which JOY JAMES ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP is one.

LUCYLE COLLINS MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, JOY JAMES ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 25.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JOY JAMES ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP has ticked down 4%, going from 492 students in 2018 to 471 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 14% to 8%. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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