KIRKPATRICK MIDDLE

KIRKPATRICK MIDDLE is a low-enrollment 6-8 campus in FORT WORTH, Texas, overseen by FORT WORTH ISD. The school instructs 485 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 25% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

Within FORT WORTH ISD, which oversees 136 schools and 70,612 students, KIRKPATRICK MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, KIRKPATRICK MIDDLE records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%). The remainder comes out to 6% Black, 3% White, 3% Asian. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, KIRKPATRICK MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.0%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate median household earnings sit near $84,207, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. KIRKPATRICK MIDDLE is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).

KIRKPATRICK EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, KIRKPATRICK MIDDLE comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 25.0%.

KIRKPATRICK MIDDLE operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. KIRKPATRICK MIDDLE's enrollment has ticked down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 512 (now 485). The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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