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Enrollment
394
Elementary
DISTRICT 421 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORT WORTH ISD·NCES 481970001900
M L PHILLIPS EL
3020 BIGHAM BLVD, FORT WORTH, TX 76116 · (817) 815-1600 · Tarrant County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL394 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.0:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
345 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
18.0%
TX avg 51.8% . -13.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
17.0%
TX avg 42.0% . +4.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are down about 13 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
14.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.6%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-21.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 36% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
394
-95 (-19%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 14.7:1
% White
11%
was 19%
% Hispanic
58%
was 54%
% Black
27%
was 20%
% Asian
1%
was 2%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About 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%.
Inside the community feed, members of the M L PHILLIPS EL community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
Tarrant County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,167,390
Census ACS
Median income
$84,207
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
639
385,835 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FORT WORTH ISD
- PASCHAL H SHigh · 2,127 students
- TRIMBLE TECHNICAL H SHigh · 1,924 students
- ARLINGTON HEIGHTS H SHigh · 1,898 students
- SOUTH HILLS H SHigh · 1,846 students
- NORTH SIDE H SHigh · 1,676 students
- O D WYATT H SHigh · 1,499 students
Other schools in FORT WORTH
- V R EATON H SHigh · 3,288 students
- TIMBER CREEK H SHigh · 2,970 students
- NORTH CROWLEY H SHigh · 2,936 students
- BOSWELL H SHigh · 2,445 students
- CHISHOLM TRAIL H SHigh · 2,258 students
- PASCHAL H SHigh · 2,127 students
Nearby schools
- MONNIG MIDDLE0.2 mi · 459
- PREMIER H S OF FORT WORTH0.5 mi · 124
- RICHARD MILBURN ACADEMY FORT WORTH0.9 mi · 167
- SUCCESS H S1.2 mi · 585
- COMO EL1.3 mi · 422
- IDEA RISE ACADEMY1.4 mi · 681
Frequently asked questions
About M L PHILLIPS ELHow large is M L PHILLIPS EL?
M L PHILLIPS EL enrolls approximately 394 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does M L PHILLIPS EL serve?
M L PHILLIPS EL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at M L PHILLIPS EL?
Approximately 14.6:1 students per teacher at M L PHILLIPS EL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at M L PHILLIPS EL?
At M L PHILLIPS EL, the student body is approximately 11% White, 58% Hispanic, 27% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is M L PHILLIPS EL public or private?
M L PHILLIPS EL is a public K-12 school, overseen by FORT WORTH ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.