MANUEL JARA EL

As a moderately sized primary school in FORT WORTH, Texas, MANUEL JARA EL educates 567 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within FORT WORTH ISD.

FORT WORTH ISD comprises 136 schools with combined enrollment of 70,612 students; MANUEL JARA EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, MANUEL JARA EL shows that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, MANUEL JARA EL logs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MANUEL JARA EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.7%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. MANUEL JARA EL is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).

The closest other public school is ELDER MIDDLE, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MANUEL JARA EL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 26.2%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 4%: 589 students in 2018 compared to 567 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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