KIRKPATRICK EL

KIRKPATRICK EL, a small primary school in FORT WORTH, Texas, run under FORT WORTH ISD, enrolls 296 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 43% below typical.

FORT WORTH ISD comprises 136 schools with combined enrollment of 70,612 students; KIRKPATRICK EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, KIRKPATRICK EL reports that 69% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest is composed of 14% Black, 11% White, 5% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, KIRKPATRICK EL records 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting KIRKPATRICK EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 94% of students at KIRKPATRICK EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, KIRKPATRICK EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.7%; this one delivers 22.0%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 KIRKPATRICK EL is one.

KIRKPATRICK MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KIRKPATRICK EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KIRKPATRICK EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 26.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KIRKPATRICK EL has shrank 24%, going from 389 students in 2018 to 296 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 75% to 69% across the same window.

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