PARKWAY EL

PARKWAY EL is an elementary school of cozy scale in FORT WORTH, Texas, overseen by CROWLEY ISD, caters to 423 students in grades pre-K through 5.

CROWLEY ISD comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 17,011 students; PARKWAY EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, PARKWAY EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment; the rest looks like 36% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 90% of students at PARKWAY EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, PARKWAY EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.5%.

In the broader community, Tarrant County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PARKWAY EL is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).

TRINITY BASIN PREPARATORY - SOUTH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PARKWAY EL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.9%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 36%: 656 students in 2018 compared to 423 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 39% to 56% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.