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TANGLEWOOD EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 9 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 TANGLEWOOD EL
TANGLEWOOD EL is one of the mid-tier elementary schools in FORT WORTH, Texas, overseen by FORT WORTH ISD, with 575 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.
Within FORT WORTH ISD, which oversees 136 schools and 70,612 students, TANGLEWOOD EL is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, TANGLEWOOD EL records that White students make up the majority at 66%. The remainder consists of 13% Hispanic, 11% Black, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 48% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, TANGLEWOOD EL shows 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.4:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 19% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
After controlling for student poverty, TANGLEWOOD EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.4%; this one delivers 72.8%.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put median household income runs about $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. TANGLEWOOD EL is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).
FORT WORTH ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TANGLEWOOD EL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 52.8%.
TANGLEWOOD EL operates from an inner-city location.
Over the past 7-year window. TANGLEWOOD EL's enrollment has declined 34% since 2018, when it stood at 875 (now 575). Over the same period, the White share fell from 76% to 66%.
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