WAVERLY PARK EL

WAVERLY PARK EL operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in FORT WORTH, Texas, operated by FORT WORTH ISD. Current enrollment sits at 639 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 23% bigger than typical.

WAVERLY PARK EL is one of 136 schools operated by FORT WORTH ISD, a district that caters to 70,612 students overall.

Looking at the student body, WAVERLY PARK EL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 22% White, 21% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, WAVERLY PARK EL has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WAVERLY PARK EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.0%.

In the surrounding community, Tarrant County reports that median household earnings sit near $84,207, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), WAVERLY PARK EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LEONARD MIDDLE, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WAVERLY PARK EL. On composite proficiency, WAVERLY PARK EL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.8%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. WAVERLY PARK EL's enrollment has edged down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 724 (now 639). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 31% to 22%.

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