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SEMINARY HILLS PARK EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 11 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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 SEMINARY HILLS PARK EL
SEMINARY HILLS PARK EL is a compact elementary campus in FORT WORTH, Texas, run under FORT WORTH ISD. The school works with 378 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 27% below the state mean of about 519.
Across the 136 schools in FORT WORTH ISD (70,612 students total), SEMINARY HILLS PARK EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, SEMINARY HILLS PARK EL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 19% Black, 7% Asian, 6% White. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, On paper, SEMINARY HILLS PARK EL has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.
With demographic context factored in, SEMINARY HILLS PARK EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.5%; this one delivers 31.6%.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, 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 SEMINARY HILLS PARK EL is one.
GREENBRIAR EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SEMINARY HILLS PARK EL. On composite proficiency, SEMINARY HILLS PARK EL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 380 students in 2018 compared to 378 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 2% to 7% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.
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