NORTH EL

As a large elementary campus in WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas, NORTH EL teaches 800 students from grades 1 through 5, overseen by WHITE SETTLEMENT ISD. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 54% bigger than typical.

Across the 10 schools in WHITE SETTLEMENT ISD (7,899 students total), NORTH EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, NORTH EL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 28% White, 9% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NORTH EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.0%, the actual is 57.7%, a residual of +11.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, Tarrant County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), NORTH EL is one campus in the mix.

FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY - FORT WORTH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, NORTH EL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 42.8%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 9%: 737 students in 2018 compared to 800 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 44% to 28%.

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