MARY HARRIS EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are down about 23 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MARY HARRIS EL
MARY HARRIS EL operates as a small primary school in FORT WORTH, Texas, part of CROWLEY ISD. Current enrollment sits at 438 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
CROWLEY ISD comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 17,011 students; MARY HARRIS EL is among them.
On the student-mix side, MARY HARRIS EL shows that 72% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 17% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 18% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, MARY HARRIS EL records 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 92% of students at MARY HARRIS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, MARY HARRIS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.5%, the actual is 28.1%, a residual of -5.4 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate median household income runs about $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. MARY HARRIS EL is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).
Nearest neighbor: HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - FORT WORTH, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MARY HARRIS EL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 34.3%.
MARY HARRIS EL operates from an inner-city location.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 25%: 587 students in 2018 compared to 438 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 52% to 72% across the same window.
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