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What's the most underrated thing about VISTA RIDGE MIDDLE that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
786
Middle
DISTRICT 917 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KELLER ISD·NCES 482526013312
Vista Ridge Middle School
3201 THOMPSON RD, FORT WORTH, TX 76137 · (817) 743-8400 · Tarrant County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL786 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 22% of Texas public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
382 students
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 272 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 243 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 271 | 34% |
Student demographics
77%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
57.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +14.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
31.0%
TX avg 45.3% . -2.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 57 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 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 14 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 21.0% | 36.0% | 23.0% | 20.0% |
| Mathematics | 9.0% | 22.0% | 28.0% | 41.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 57.0% | 31.0% |
| 2024-25 | 57.0% | 30.0% |
| 2023-24 | 57.0% | 30.0% |
| 2022-23 | 47.0% | 41.0% |
| 2021-22 | 47.0% | 41.0% |
| 2020-21 | 43.0% | 33.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
40.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.9%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Vista Ridge Middle School
Vista Ridge Middle School's state test result (40.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vista Ridge Middle School this school | 786 | 48.6% | 40.7% |
| B G Hudson Middle School SACHSE | 1,099 | 50.0% | 52.6% |
| Nelson Junior High School KATY | 904 | 51.2% | 55.5% |
| Iltexas Keller Middle School FORT WORTH | 440 | 45.2% | 50.9% |
| Austin Academy for Excell GARLAND | 951 | 51.3% | 66.0% |
| Krimmel Intermed KLEIN | 1,172 | 44.9% | 58.5% |
Matched among Texas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Vista Ridge Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Tarrant County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.7% | #902 of 1,635 | #60 of 108 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #1,331 of 1,670 ▼ 34 | #89 of 112 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #698 of 1,670 ▼ 22 | #50 of 112 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.0pp | #1,338 of 1,570 | #89 of 110 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 786 | #582 of 1,749 | #42 of 115 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #949 of 1,542 | #60 of 112 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 77.4% | #3 of 1,543 | #2 of 112 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.6% | #1,176 of 1,648 | #78 of 109 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +213.1% | #1 of 437 | #1 of 27 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
786
+13 (+2%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 12.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 786 | 51.2 | 15.3:1 | 49% (382) |
| 2023-24 | 755 | 56.9 | 13.3:1 | 50% (375) |
| 2022-23 | 822 | 65.7 | 12.5:1 | 51% (421) |
| 2020-21 | 773 | 60 | 12.9:1 | 43% (335) |
| 2017-18 | 251 | 25.4 | 9.9:1 | 41% (104) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Vista Ridge Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 213% (251 to 786); teachers up 102% (25.4 to 51.2).
About Vista Ridge Middle School
Vista Ridge Middle School is a middle school in FORT WORTH, Texas, and it is part of KELLER ISD. Federal data show 786 students enrolled in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 643 students for middle schools in Texas.
The KELLER ISD system has 42 schools and 32,042 students.
At Vista Ridge Middle School, Hispanic students make up the biggest share, 32%. The remaining students are 22% Black, 20% White, 16% Asian, and 9% multiracial. Tarrant County residents are about 30% Hispanic, a similar share. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 77%.
With 51.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 15.3:1. Middle schools in Texas average 14.4:1, 1.0 fewer students per teacher than here. Roughly 49% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is lower than the 63% average for public schools in Tarrant County.
Among Texas public middle schools, Vista Ridge Middle School outscored 22%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 40.7%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 52.9%.
For Tarrant County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $84,207, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. There are 639 public schools in the county, enrolling about 385,835, Vista Ridge Middle School among them.
Vista Ridge Middle School's nearest public school is Keller Early Learning Center - South (about 0.6 miles). There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Vista Ridge Middle School is 6th on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around Vista Ridge Middle School as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 773 in 2020-21, 786 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio rising from 12.9:1 to 15.3:1.
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Tarrant County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,167,390
Census ACS
Median income
$84,207
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
639
385,835 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in KELLER ISD
- Timber Creek High SchoolHigh · 2,970 students
- Keller High SchoolHigh · 2,951 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 2,410 students
- Fossil Ridge High SchoolHigh · 2,140 students
- Hillwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,126 students
- Parkwood Hill Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 1,022 students
Other schools in FORT WORTH
- V R Eaton High SchoolHigh · 3,288 students
- Timber Creek High SchoolHigh · 2,970 students
- North Crowley High SchoolHigh · 2,936 students
- Boswell High SchoolHigh · 2,445 students
- Chisholm Trail High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- Paschal High SchoolHigh · 2,127 students
Nearby schools
- Keller Early Learning Center - South0.6 mi · 317
- North Riverside Elementary School0.7 mi · 469
- Heritage Elementary School0.8 mi · 529
- Fossil Ridge High School1.0 mi · 2,140
- Fossil Hill Middle School1.1 mi · 831
- Basswood Elementary School1.4 mi · 563
Frequently asked questions
About Vista Ridge Middle SchoolHow many students attend Vista Ridge Middle School?
Vista Ridge Middle School enrolls approximately 786 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Vista Ridge Middle School serve?
Vista Ridge Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Vista Ridge Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Vista Ridge Middle School is approximately 15.3:1 (51 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Vista Ridge Middle School?
Student demographics at Vista Ridge Middle School are roughly 20% White, 32% Hispanic, 22% Black, 16% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Vista Ridge Middle School in?
Vista Ridge Middle School is part of KELLER ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.