Enrollment
349
Elementary
DISTRICT 421 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORT WORTH ISD·NCES 481970001891
NATHA HOWELL EL
1324 KING'S HWY, FORT WORTH, TX 76117 · (817) 814-9300 · Tarrant County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL349 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.0:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
335 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
31.0%
TX avg 51.8% . +2.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
43.0%
TX avg 42.0% . +19.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 2 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 19 points.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
30.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.0%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
349
-90 (-21%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 13.6:1
% White
5%
was 6%
% Hispanic
87%
was 88%
% Black
6%
was 4%
% Asian
0%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About NATHA HOWELL EL
NATHA HOWELL EL operates as an intimate elementary school in FORT WORTH, Texas, part of FORT WORTH ISD. Current enrollment sits at 349 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 33% below typical.
FORT WORTH ISD comprises 136 schools with combined enrollment of 70,612 students; NATHA HOWELL EL is among them.
On the student-mix side, NATHA HOWELL EL logs that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 6% Black, 5% White, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, NATHA HOWELL EL has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at NATHA HOWELL EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NATHA HOWELL EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.0%, the actual is 30.5%, a residual of -1.5 points.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which NATHA HOWELL EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: CARTER-RIVERSIDE H S, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NATHA HOWELL EL. On composite proficiency, NATHA HOWELL EL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 30.9%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Looking at the recent track record. NATHA HOWELL EL's enrollment has fell 21% since 2018, when it stood at 439 (now 349). Class-load math has grew: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.
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Tarrant County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,167,390
Census ACS
Median income
$84,207
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
639
385,835 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FORT WORTH ISD
- PASCHAL H SHigh · 2,127 students
- TRIMBLE TECHNICAL H SHigh · 1,924 students
- ARLINGTON HEIGHTS H SHigh · 1,898 students
- SOUTH HILLS H SHigh · 1,846 students
- NORTH SIDE H SHigh · 1,676 students
- O D WYATT H SHigh · 1,499 students
Other schools in FORT WORTH
- V R EATON H SHigh · 3,288 students
- TIMBER CREEK H SHigh · 2,970 students
- NORTH CROWLEY H SHigh · 2,936 students
- BOSWELL H SHigh · 2,445 students
- CHISHOLM TRAIL H SHigh · 2,258 students
- PASCHAL H SHigh · 2,127 students
Nearby schools
- CARTER-RIVERSIDE H S0.7 mi · 1,039
- RIVERSIDE MIDDLE0.8 mi · 739
- SPRINGDALE EL1.1 mi · 393
- OAKHURST EL1.2 mi · 466
- BONNIE BRAE1.2 mi · 326
- WEST BIRDVILLE EL1.4 mi · 665
Frequently asked questions
About NATHA HOWELL ELHow many students attend NATHA HOWELL EL?
NATHA HOWELL EL enrolls approximately 349 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does NATHA HOWELL EL serve?
NATHA HOWELL EL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at NATHA HOWELL EL?
Approximately 16.3:1 students per teacher at NATHA HOWELL EL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at NATHA HOWELL EL?
At NATHA HOWELL EL, the student body is approximately 5% White, 87% Hispanic, 6% Black, 2% Two or more.
What district is NATHA HOWELL EL in?
NATHA HOWELL EL is part of FORT WORTH ISD.
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