STARRETT EL

STARRETT EL is a mid-sized elementary school in GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, one of the schools within ARLINGTON ISD. The school enrolls 479 students in grades pre-K through 6.

ARLINGTON ISD comprises 75 schools with combined enrollment of 53,394 students; STARRETT EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, STARRETT EL records that 43% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 39% Black, 9% White, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, STARRETT EL records 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), STARRETT EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.4%, the actual is 27.4%, a residual of -13.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. STARRETT EL is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).

WEST EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, STARRETT EL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.6%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at STARRETT EL has ticked down 16%, going from 573 students in 2018 to 479 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for STARRETT EL typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.