Enrollment
349
Elementary
DISTRICT 421 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORT WORTH ISD·NCES 481970001891
Natha Howell Elementary School
1324 KING'S HWY, FORT WORTH, TX 76117 · (817) 814-9300 · Tarrant County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL349 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 31% of Texas public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
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, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 38 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 58 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 43 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 5% larger than its 5th grade class (55).
Student demographics
24%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
49.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +20.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
48.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +24.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 20 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 24 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 18.0% | 31.0% | 20.0% | 31.0% |
| Mathematics | 20.0% | 28.0% | 24.0% | 28.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 49.0% | 48.0% |
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 40.0% |
| 2023-24 | 31.0% | 43.0% |
| 2022-23 | 42.0% | 44.0% |
| 2021-22 | 36.0% | 38.0% |
| 2020-21 | 29.0% | 24.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
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
32.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.7%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 →
Schools most like Natha Howell Elementary School
Natha Howell Elementary School's state test result (32.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natha Howell Elementary School this school | 349 | 96.0% | 32.2% |
| Maria Moreno Steam Academy DALLAS | 344 | 95.6% | 39.9% |
| Lorenzo De Zavala Elementary School DALLAS | 369 | 96.7% | 32.5% |
| Kennedy Elementary School CORPUS CHRISTI | 363 | 97.8% | N/A |
| Allen Elementary School CORPUS CHRISTI | 331 | 96.1% | 25.6% |
| Bishop Arts Steam Academy DALLAS | 349 | 96.0% | 37.3% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Natha Howell Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Tarrant County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.2% | #3,460 of 4,401 | #225 of 330 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #1,956 of 4,466 ▲ 751 | #127 of 339 ▲ 45 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #2,631 of 4,466 ▲ 476 | #183 of 339 ▲ 26 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.5pp | #2,063 of 3,998 | #154 of 320 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 349 | #3,879 of 4,938 | #301 of 353 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #3,481 of 4,622 | #287 of 348 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 23.5% | #3,645 of 4,628 | #319 of 348 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.0% | #389 of 4,789 | #16 of 341 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.5% | #1,127 of 2,838 | #111 of 242 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
349
+4 (+1%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 423
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 12.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 349 | 21.5 | 16.3:1 | 96% (335) |
| 2023-24 | 346 | 22.8 | 15.2:1 | 92% (319) |
| 2022-23 | 340 | 22 | 15.4:1 | 93% (315) |
| 2020-21 | 345 | 27 | 12.8:1 | 92% (318) |
| 2017-18 | 439 | 32.2 | 13.6:1 | 87% (384) |
| 2015-16 | 489 | 31 | 15.8:1 | 77% (376) |
| 2010-11 | 472 | 29 | 16.3:1 | 87% (411) |
| 2000-01 | 367 | 21 | 17.5:1 | 73% (269) |
| 1990-91 | 423 | 23 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Natha Howell Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (439 to 349); teachers down 33% (32.2 to 21.5).
About Natha Howell Elementary School
Natha Howell Elementary School is a small elementary school in Texas, located in FORT WORTH. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 349 students on the rolls. Elementary schools in Texas average about 519 students, which makes this school 33% below average.
FORT WORTH ISD serves 70,612 students across 136 schools.
By race and ethnicity, Natha Howell Elementary School is 87% Hispanic. Next come 6% Black, 5% White, and 2% multiracial. The county population is about 30% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 24%.
Natha Howell Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.3:1, with 21.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Texas is 15.1:1, so this school has more students per teacher. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 96% at Natha Howell Elementary School. Across public schools in Tarrant County, the average is 63%.
On the allk12 Grade, Natha Howell Elementary School lands at C, ahead of 31% of Texas public elementary schools.
In Texas, Natha Howell Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 32.2% actual against a predicted 32.7%.
In Tarrant County, the median household earns about $84,207 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Tarrant County has 639 public schools with about 385,835 students, including Natha Howell Elementary School.
Carter-Riverside High School, about 0.7 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of Natha Howell Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Natha Howell Elementary School is 3rd of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Under the NCES locale system, Natha Howell Elementary School is Suburb: Large.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (345) and 2024-25 (349). Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 16.3:1, from 12.8:1.
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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
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- Carter-Riverside High School0.7 mi · 1,039
- Riverside Middle School0.8 mi · 739
- Springdale Elementary School1.1 mi · 393
- Oakhurst Elementary School1.2 mi · 466
- Bonnie Brae1.2 mi · 326
- West Birdville Elementary School1.4 mi · 665
Frequently asked questions
About Natha Howell Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Natha Howell Elementary School?
Natha Howell Elementary School enrolls approximately 349 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Natha Howell Elementary School serve?
Natha Howell Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Natha Howell Elementary School?
Approximately 16.3:1 students per teacher at Natha Howell Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Natha Howell Elementary School?
At Natha Howell Elementary School, the student body is approximately 5% White, 87% Hispanic, 6% Black, 2% Two or more.
What district is Natha Howell Elementary School in?
Natha Howell Elementary School is part of FORT WORTH ISD.
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