LUELLA MERRETT EL

Located at 7325 KERMIT AVE, in FORT WORTH, Texas, LUELLA MERRETT EL is a mid-tier elementary campus that educates 456 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under FORT WORTH ISD.

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

In terms of who attends, LUELLA MERRETT EL reports that 80% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 12% White, 6% Black. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LUELLA MERRETT EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.7%, the actual is 34.8%, a residual of +1.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Tarrant County shows median household income runs about $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which LUELLA MERRETT EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: RICHARD MILBURN ACADEMY FORT WORTH, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LUELLA MERRETT EL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LUELLA MERRETT EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 37.1%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. LUELLA MERRETT EL's enrollment has fell 28% since 2018, when it stood at 631 (now 456). Class-load math has fell: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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