LEONARD MIDDLE

LEONARD MIDDLE is a middle-grades school of average-sized scale in FORT WORTH, Texas, run under FORT WORTH ISD, enrolling 568 students in grades 6 through 8.

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

Looking at the student body, LEONARD MIDDLE reports that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 32% Black, 5% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, LEONARD MIDDLE logs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting LEONARD MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Tarrant County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LEONARD MIDDLE falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 33.5%; this one comes in at 17.5%, -15.9 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate median household earnings sit near $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. LEONARD MIDDLE is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).

WAVERLY PARK EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LEONARD MIDDLE. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LEONARD MIDDLE ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 34.1%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LEONARD MIDDLE has edged down 26%, going from 772 students in 2018 to 568 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 49% to 58% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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