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Enrollment
418
Elementary
DISTRICT 474 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CROWLEY ISD·NCES 481591011343
Sidney H Poynter
521 ASHDALE RD, FORT WORTH, TX 76140 · (817) 568-5730 · Tarrant County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL418 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 28% of Texas public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
318 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 43 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 70 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
44.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +24.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
45.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +32.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 24 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 32 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 21.0% | 23.0% | 25.0% | 31.0% |
| Mathematics | 17.0% | 28.0% | 19.0% | 36.0% |
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 | 44.0% | 45.0% |
| 2024-25 | 42.0% | 38.0% |
| 2023-24 | 35.0% | 35.0% |
| 2022-23 | 15.0% | 31.0% |
| 2021-22 | 53.0% | 18.0% |
| 2020-21 | 20.0% | 13.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
33.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.2%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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%.
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 Sidney H Poynter
Sidney H Poynter's state test result (33.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sidney H Poynter this school | 418 | 76.1% | 33.4% |
| Lantern Lane Elementary School MISSOURI CITY | 434 | 74.7% | 31.1% |
| Nita Pearson Elementary School ROWLETT | 455 | 75.2% | 34.2% |
| Pirrung Elementary School MESQUITE | 407 | 81.8% | 32.2% |
| Life School Lancaster LANCASTER | 455 | 73.8% | 24.1% |
| Life School Cedar Hill CEDAR HILL | 450 | 76.4% | 35.0% |
Matched among Texas elementary 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 Sidney H Poynter ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Tarrant County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.4% | #3,325 of 4,401 | #215 of 330 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #2,258 of 4,466 ▲ 661 | #144 of 339 ▲ 49 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #3,226 of 4,466 ▲ 70 | #225 of 339 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +21.5pp | #423 of 3,998 | #27 of 320 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 418 | #3,337 of 4,938 | #257 of 353 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #1,891 of 4,622 | #144 of 348 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.2% | #1,132 of 4,628 | #150 of 348 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.1% | #2,209 of 4,789 | #162 of 341 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.3% | #906 of 2,838 | #90 of 242 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
418
+8 (+2%) vs 2020
-29% since 2010-11, when it was 589
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 418 | 29 | 14.4:1 | 76% (318) |
| 2023-24 | 413 | 34.3 | 12.0:1 | 79% (328) |
| 2022-23 | 422 | 35 | 12.1:1 | 81% (341) |
| 2020-21 | 410 | 33 | 12.4:1 | 77% (314) |
| 2017-18 | 545 | 36.6 | 14.9:1 | 63% (344) |
| 2015-16 | 611 | 36 | 17.0:1 | 67% (412) |
| 2010-11 | 589 | 36 | 16.4:1 | 54% (317) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sidney H Poynter.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (545 to 418); teachers down 21% (36.6 to 29).
About Sidney H Poynter
In FORT WORTH, Texas, part of Tarrant County, Sidney H Poynter is an elementary school. It reports enrollment of 418 students in pre-K through 5.
Sidney H Poynter is in CROWLEY ISD, a district with 17,011 students across 24 schools.
Federal enrollment data show Sidney H Poynter is 53% Black. Next come 28% Hispanic, 10% White, and 7% multiracial. The county population is about 18% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 63%.
Its staff includes 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 14.4 students per teacher. The ratio is within a point of the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. Sidney H Poynter has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 76%. Compared with the 63% average for public schools in Tarrant County, the school's rate is higher.
On the allk12 Grade, Sidney H Poynter lands at C, ahead of 28% of Texas public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Sidney H Poynter falls in the middle 80% of Texas schools: 33.4% actual against 41.2% predicted.
In Tarrant County, the median household earns about $84,207 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Tarrant County has 639 public schools with about 385,835 students, including Sidney H Poynter.
Sidney H Poynter is less than a tenth of a mile from Crowley College Prep Elementary School, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 33.4% is below the 35.4% average for nearby schools.
NCES assigns Sidney H Poynter the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (410) and 2024-25 (418). Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 14.4:1, from 12.4:1.
The allk12 page for Sidney H Poynter lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 CROWLEY ISD
- North Crowley High SchoolHigh · 2,936 students
- Crowley High SchoolHigh · 2,433 students
- Summer Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,035 students
- Richard Allie Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,008 students
- Crowley Middle SchoolMiddle · 821 students
- H F Stevens Middle SchoolMiddle · 723 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
- Crowley College Prep Elementary School0.0 mi · 37
- David L Walker Elt0.8 mi · 434
- H F Stevens Middle School1.4 mi · 723
- Roy Johnson STEM Academy2.0 mi · 441
- Parkway Elementary School2.0 mi · 423
- Dan Powell Early Learning Academy2.1 mi · 561
Frequently asked questions
About Sidney H PoynterHow many students attend Sidney H Poynter?
Sidney H Poynter enrolls approximately 418 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Sidney H Poynter serve?
Sidney H Poynter serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Sidney H Poynter?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Sidney H Poynter is approximately 14.4:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Sidney H Poynter?
At Sidney H Poynter, the student body is approximately 10% White, 28% Hispanic, 53% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Sidney H Poynter public or private?
Sidney H Poynter is a public K-12 school, overseen by CROWLEY ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.