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PRAIRIE VISTA
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 14 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PRAIRIE VISTA
PRAIRIE VISTA, a reasonably sized intermediate school in FORT WORTH, Texas, run under EAGLE MT-SAGINAW ISD, educates 958 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 49% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.
EAGLE MT-SAGINAW ISD runs 32 schools in total, collectively educating 23,982 students. PRAIRIE VISTA is one of those campuses.
Demographically, PRAIRIE VISTA reports that 37% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 27% Black, 23% White, 9% Asian, 4% multiracial.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting PRAIRIE VISTA higher than the state norm the norm. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.
With demographic context factored in, PRAIRIE VISTA sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.2%; this one delivers 39.1%.
In the area at large, census data for Tarrant County shows median household earnings sit near $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. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), PRAIRIE VISTA is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: COMANCHE SPRINGS EL, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PRAIRIE VISTA comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 38.8%.
PRAIRIE VISTA operates from a metropolitan location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PRAIRIE VISTA has grew 17%, going from 820 students in 2018 to 958 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked up from 15% to 27% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 today.
On the community side, the feed for PRAIRIE VISTA typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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