SPRINGDALE EL

SPRINGDALE EL is one of the small elementary campuss in FORT WORTH, Texas, part of FORT WORTH ISD, with 393 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so SPRINGDALE EL sits 24% below that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, SPRINGDALE EL records that nearly all students (95%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 3% White. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

With demographic context factored in, SPRINGDALE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.8%, the actual is 29.2%, a residual of -3.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate 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 SPRINGDALE EL is one.

BONNIE BRAE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SPRINGDALE EL. On composite proficiency, SPRINGDALE EL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 29%: 555 students in 2018 compared to 393 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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