S S DILLOW EL

S S DILLOW EL, an intimate primary school in FORT WORTH, Texas, overseen by FORT WORTH ISD, teaches 432 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

FORT WORTH ISD comprises 136 schools with combined enrollment of 70,612 students; S S DILLOW EL is among them.

On demographics, S S DILLOW EL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%). The remainder looks like 13% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Tarrant County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, S S DILLOW EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.9%, the actual is 26.7%, a residual of -4.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate median household income runs about $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), S S DILLOW EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is T A SIMS EL, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), S S DILLOW EL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 27.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. S S DILLOW EL's enrollment has ticked down 24% since 2018, when it stood at 568 (now 432). Hispanic enrollment moved from 70% to 85% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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