WALSH EL

WALSH EL, a medium-sized primary school in FORT WORTH, Texas, operated by ALEDO ISD, works with 550 students, covering grades K through 5.

ALEDO ISD comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 8,430 students; WALSH EL is among them.

On demographics, WALSH EL shows that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

On the resource side, The school reports having 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting WALSH EL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 4% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Parker County (around 33%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, WALSH EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 72.0%; this one delivers 75.3%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Parker County) records that median household earnings sit near $104,443, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Parker County runs 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,354 students), of which WALSH EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: MCANALLY MIDDLE, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WALSH EL. On composite proficiency, WALSH EL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 58.1%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. WALSH EL's enrollment has increased 65% since 2018, when it stood at 334 (now 550). Asian enrollment moved from 1% to 5% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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