MORNINGSIDE EL

As a low-enrollment elementary-level community in FORT WORTH, Texas, MORNINGSIDE EL hosts 401 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by FORT WORTH ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so MORNINGSIDE EL sits 23% leaner than that benchmark.

Within FORT WORTH ISD, which oversees 136 schools and 70,612 students, MORNINGSIDE EL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, MORNINGSIDE EL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 76% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 19% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Tarrant County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, MORNINGSIDE EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.0%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Tarrant County shows median household income runs about $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), MORNINGSIDE EL is one campus in the mix.

MORNINGSIDE MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MORNINGSIDE EL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 31.0%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 35%: 620 students in 2018 compared to 401 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 45% to 76% over that span.

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