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MARY HARRIS EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-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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