RUFINO MENDOZA SR EL

Set in FORT WORTH, Texas, RUFINO MENDOZA SR EL is a tight-knit elementary school, run under FORT WORTH ISD. It serves 342 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 34% below the state mean of about 519.

Within FORT WORTH ISD, which oversees 136 schools and 70,612 students, RUFINO MENDOZA SR EL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, RUFINO MENDOZA SR EL lists that nearly all students (97%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 2% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, RUFINO MENDOZA SR EL has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

After controlling for student poverty, RUFINO MENDOZA SR EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.5%; RUFINO MENDOZA SR EL posts 19.0%, -14.5 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, 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 RUFINO MENDOZA SR EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: ELDER MIDDLE, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RUFINO MENDOZA SR EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RUFINO MENDOZA SR EL at 4th of 4; the average score across the group is 28.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 22%: 439 students in 2018 compared to 342 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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