SUNRISE - MCMILLAN EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 2 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 15 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 21% 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 SUNRISE - MCMILLAN EL
Located at 3409 STALCUP RD, in FORT WORTH, Texas, SUNRISE - MCMILLAN EL is a low-enrollment K-5 school that serves 417 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under FORT WORTH ISD.
SUNRISE - MCMILLAN EL is one of 136 schools operated by FORT WORTH ISD, a district that caters to 70,612 students overall.
Demographically, SUNRISE - MCMILLAN EL records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 62%; the rest comes out to 33% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SUNRISE - MCMILLAN EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 97% of students at SUNRISE - MCMILLAN EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Tarrant County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SUNRISE - MCMILLAN EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 31.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 21.0%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Tarrant County) shows that median household earnings sit near $84,207, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. SUNRISE - MCMILLAN EL is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).
J MARTIN JACQUET MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SUNRISE - MCMILLAN EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 31.7%.
SUNRISE - MCMILLAN EL operates from a downtown location.
Over the past 7-year window. SUNRISE - MCMILLAN EL's enrollment has rose 8% since 2018, when it stood at 387 (now 417). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 41% to 62%. Class-load math has grew: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.
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