WATAUGA EL

WATAUGA EL is one of the reasonably sized elementary campuss in WATAUGA, Texas, operated by BIRDVILLE ISD, with 700 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 35% above the state mean of about 519.

BIRDVILLE ISD runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 22,267 students. WATAUGA EL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, WATAUGA EL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% White, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, WATAUGA EL has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Tarrant County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, WATAUGA EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.8%; this one delivers 41.1%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Tarrant County) shows that median household income runs about $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. WATAUGA EL is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).

WATAUGA MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WATAUGA EL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.5%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 14%: 811 students in 2018 compared to 700 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 29% to 19% over that span.

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