SOUTH HILLS EL

Set in FORT WORTH, Texas, SOUTH HILLS EL is a medium-sized primary school, overseen by FORT WORTH ISD. It caters to 649 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 25% larger than the state mean of about 519.

Across the 136 schools in FORT WORTH ISD (70,612 students total), SOUTH HILLS EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SOUTH HILLS EL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%). Other groups include 7% White, 4% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 87% of students at SOUTH HILLS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

After controlling for student poverty, SOUTH HILLS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.9%, the actual is 31.6%, a residual of -4.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put 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. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), SOUTH HILLS EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ALICE D CONTRERAS, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SOUTH HILLS EL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 36.7%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 24%: 851 students in 2018 compared to 649 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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