OVERTON PARK EL

OVERTON PARK EL operates as a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in FORT WORTH, Texas, run under FORT WORTH ISD. Current enrollment sits at 510 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

FORT WORTH ISD runs 136 schools in total, collectively educating 70,612 students. OVERTON PARK EL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, OVERTON PARK EL records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 48% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, OVERTON PARK EL logs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 6% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, OVERTON PARK EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 71.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 84.1%.

In the area at large, Tarrant County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. OVERTON PARK EL is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).

Nearest neighbor: FORT WORTH ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts OVERTON PARK EL at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 42.9%.

OVERTON PARK EL operates from a city-core location.

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