M L PHILLIPS EL

M L PHILLIPS EL is an elementary school of small scale in FORT WORTH, Texas, overseen by FORT WORTH ISD, enrolling 394 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 24% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Within FORT WORTH ISD, which oversees 136 schools and 70,612 students, M L PHILLIPS EL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, M L PHILLIPS EL shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 58%. Beyond that, the school logs 27% Black, 11% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, M L PHILLIPS EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.6%; M L PHILLIPS EL posts 14.4%, -21.3 points below that line.

In the surrounding 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 the poverty rate sits near 8%. M L PHILLIPS EL is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).

MONNIG MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around M L PHILLIPS EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts M L PHILLIPS EL at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 37.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at M L PHILLIPS EL has shrank 19%, going from 489 students in 2018 to 394 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 19% to 11%.

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