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What's the most underrated thing about PRAIRIE VISTA that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
958
Middle
DISTRICT 777 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAGLE MT-SAGINAW ISD·NCES 481770011344
Prairie Vista
8000 COMANCHE SPRINGS DR, FORT WORTH, TX 76131 · (817) 847-9210 · Tarrant County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL958 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 11% of Texas public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
20.0:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.0:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
475 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 321 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 317 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 320 | 33% |
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
50.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +11.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
26.0%
TX avg 45.3% . -11.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 11 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 11 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 24.0% | 26.0% | 23.0% | 27.0% |
| Mathematics | 7.0% | 19.0% | 29.0% | 45.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 50.0% | 26.0% |
| 2024-25 | 49.0% | 31.0% |
| 2023-24 | 53.0% | 35.0% |
| 2022-23 | 54.0% | 34.0% |
| 2021-22 | 50.0% | 29.0% |
| 2020-21 | 39.0% | 37.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
36.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.5%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 53% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Prairie Vista
Prairie Vista's state test result (36.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Vista this school | 958 | 49.6% | 36.9% |
| Creekview Middle School FORT WORTH | 962 | 49.5% | 55.0% |
| Frankford Middle School DALLAS | 839 | 53.3% | 42.0% |
| Strack Intermediate School KLEIN | 1,237 | 50.6% | 53.6% |
| Schindewolf Intermediate School KLEIN | 1,087 | 54.9% | 50.7% |
| Nolan Middle School HARKER HEIGHTS | 1,068 | 47.8% | 47.4% |
Matched among Texas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Prairie Vista ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Tarrant County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.9% | #1,092 of 1,635 | #69 of 108 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.0% | #1,504 of 1,670 ▼ 254 | #99 of 112 ▼ 24 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,039 of 1,670 ▼ 54 | #75 of 112 ▼ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -6.0pp | #78 of 1,570 | #9 of 110 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 958 | #330 of 1,749 | #20 of 115 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.0:1 | #1,512 of 1,542 | #111 of 112 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.1% | #55 of 1,543 | #10 of 112 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.6% | #1,151 of 1,648 | #75 of 109 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +16.8% | #168 of 437 | #11 of 27 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
958
+114 (+14%) vs 2020
+19% since 2010-11, when it was 804
Student : Teacher
20.0:1
was 15.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 958 | 47.9 | 20.0:1 | 50% (475) |
| 2023-24 | 899 | 54.7 | 16.4:1 | 53% (474) |
| 2022-23 | 923 | 54.9 | 16.8:1 | 52% (477) |
| 2020-21 | 844 | 53 | 15.9:1 | 46% (390) |
| 2017-18 | 820 | 52.8 | 15.5:1 | 52% (423) |
| 2015-16 | 915 | 52 | 17.6:1 | 50% (458) |
| 2010-11 | 804 | 51 | 15.8:1 | 48% (382) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Prairie Vista.
Since 2017-18: students up 17% (820 to 958); teachers down 9% (52.8 to 47.9).
About Prairie Vista
Prairie Vista runs as a medium-sized middle-grades school in FORT WORTH, Texas. It educates 958 students in grades 6 through 8. The school's enrollment is 49% bigger than the 643 average for middle schools in Texas.
EAGLE MT-SAGINAW ISD counts 23,982 students in its 32 schools, and Prairie Vista is one of them.
Hispanic students form the largest group at Prairie Vista, 37% of enrollment. Enrollment also includes 27% Black, 23% White, 9% Asian, and 4% multiracial. The chance that two students picked at random at Prairie Vista belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 73%.
The school reports 47.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 20.0 students per teacher. The 14.4:1 average for middle schools in Texas is lower than this school's figure. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 50%. The gap from the 63% average for public schools in Tarrant County is 13 points.
Prairie Vista is graded D by allk12, scoring above 11% of Texas public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Prairie Vista scores 15.6 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests: 36.9% actual versus 52.5% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of Texas schools on BeatsExpectations.
Within Tarrant County, median household income is about $84,207, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 35% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 8%. Federal data list 639 public schools in Tarrant County, with a combined enrollment of about 385,835.
The closest public school, Comanche Springs Elementary School, is about 0.1 miles from Prairie Vista. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 39.0%; Prairie Vista's is 36.9%, ranking 6th of 9.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 844 in 2020-21 and 958 in 2024-25, a increase of 114 students. Federal data show the ratio rising from 15.9:1 to 20.0:1.
Questions about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Tarrant County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,167,390
Census ACS
Median income
$84,207
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
639
385,835 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in EAGLE MT-SAGINAW ISD
- Boswell High SchoolHigh · 2,445 students
- Chisholm Trail High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- Saginaw High SchoolHigh · 2,013 students
- Wayside Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,119 students
- Creekview Middle SchoolMiddle · 962 students
- Marine Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 926 students
Other schools in FORT WORTH
- V R Eaton High SchoolHigh · 3,288 students
- Timber Creek High SchoolHigh · 2,970 students
- North Crowley High SchoolHigh · 2,936 students
- Boswell High SchoolHigh · 2,445 students
- Chisholm Trail High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- Paschal High SchoolHigh · 2,127 students
Nearby schools
- Comanche Springs Elementary School0.1 mi · 628
- Copper Creek Elementary School0.8 mi · 702
- Elizabeth Lopez Hatley Elementary School0.9 mi · 440
- High Country Elementary School1.0 mi · 511
- Highland Middle School1.1 mi · 700
- Chisholm Ridge1.4 mi · 623
Frequently asked questions
About Prairie VistaHow many students attend Prairie Vista?
Prairie Vista enrolls approximately 958 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Prairie Vista serve?
Prairie Vista serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Prairie Vista?
Approximately 20.0:1 students per teacher at Prairie Vista.
How diverse is Prairie Vista?
Prairie Vista reports a student body of 23% White, 37% Hispanic, 27% Black, 9% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Prairie Vista?
Prairie Vista is overseen by EAGLE MT-SAGINAW ISD in Tarrant County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.