TEXAS ACADEMY OF BIOMEDICAL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 27 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 42% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 24 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About TEXAS ACADEMY OF BIOMEDICAL
TEXAS ACADEMY OF BIOMEDICAL is a senior high of cozy scale in FORT WORTH, Texas, operated by FORT WORTH ISD, serveing 374 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 53% smaller than the state mean of about 796.
FORT WORTH ISD runs 136 schools in total, collectively educating 70,612 students. TEXAS ACADEMY OF BIOMEDICAL is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, TEXAS ACADEMY OF BIOMEDICAL reports that 72% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 13% Black, 9% White, 5% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, TEXAS ACADEMY OF BIOMEDICAL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 42.1%; this one delivers 66.5%, a residual of +24.4 points.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Tarrant County shows median household earnings sit near $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. TEXAS ACADEMY OF BIOMEDICAL is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).
CHARLES NASH EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
The campus sits in an inner-city setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TEXAS ACADEMY OF BIOMEDICAL has ticked down 3%, going from 387 students in 2018 to 374 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 62% to 72% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 today.
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