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MEACHAM MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MEACHAM MIDDLE
Located at 3600 WEBER ST, in FORT WORTH, Texas, MEACHAM MIDDLE is a medium-sized junior high that serves 680 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by FORT WORTH ISD.
Across the 136 schools in FORT WORTH ISD (70,612 students total), MEACHAM MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, MEACHAM MIDDLE lists that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, MEACHAM MIDDLE has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MEACHAM MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.7%, the actual is 25.2%, a residual of -7.5 points.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate 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%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which MEACHAM MIDDLE is one.
MOORE M H EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MEACHAM MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, MEACHAM MIDDLE comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 26.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 16%: 814 students in 2018 compared to 680 in 2025.
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