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W M GREEN 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 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are down about 7 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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 W M GREEN EL
Set in FORT WORTH, Texas, W M GREEN EL is a moderately sized primary school, overseen by FORT WORTH ISD. It serves 532 students across grades pre-K through 5.
FORT WORTH ISD comprises 136 schools with combined enrollment of 70,612 students; W M GREEN EL is among them.
Demographically, W M GREEN EL shows that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 27% Black, 6% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, W M GREEN EL has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 96% of students at W M GREEN EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, W M GREEN EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.9%; this one delivers 18.1%.
Around the school, Tarrant County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which W M GREEN EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: DAVID K SELLARS EL, around 1.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), W M GREEN EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.9%.
Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at W M GREEN EL has fell 34%, going from 803 students in 2018 to 532 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 36% to 27%. Class-load math has fell: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.
In the discussion threads here, members of the W M GREEN EL community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Tarrant County at a glance
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