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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