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POLYTECHNIC H S
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About POLYTECHNIC H S
POLYTECHNIC H S is an expansive four-year high school in FORT WORTH, Texas, one of the schools within FORT WORTH ISD. The school teaches 1,375 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so POLYTECHNIC H S sits 73% bigger than that benchmark.
FORT WORTH ISD runs 136 schools in total, collectively educating 70,612 students. POLYTECHNIC H S is one of those campuses.
On demographics, POLYTECHNIC H S records that nearly all students (82%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 14% Black. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, On paper, POLYTECHNIC H S has 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 91% of students at POLYTECHNIC H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, POLYTECHNIC H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.0%, the actual is 20.4%, a residual of -13.7 points.
In the broader community, census data for Tarrant County shows median household income runs about $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which POLYTECHNIC H S is one.
WILLIAM JAMES MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, POLYTECHNIC H S comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 24.3%.
The campus sits in an urban setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 14%: 1,209 students in 2018 compared to 1,375 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 73% to 82% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.
On this page, the feed for POLYTECHNIC H S typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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