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WEST BIRDVILLE EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 4 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 WEST BIRDVILLE EL
WEST BIRDVILLE EL is one of the average-sized primary schools in HALTOM CITY, Texas, overseen by BIRDVILLE ISD, with 665 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so WEST BIRDVILLE EL sits 28% larger than that benchmark.
BIRDVILLE ISD comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 22,267 students; WEST BIRDVILLE EL is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, WEST BIRDVILLE EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%); the rest comes out to 7% White. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.
With demographic context factored in, WEST BIRDVILLE EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.5%.
Around the school, census data for Tarrant County shows the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), WEST BIRDVILLE EL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is HALTOM MIDDLE, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WEST BIRDVILLE EL at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 30.7%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WEST BIRDVILLE EL has ticked down 8%, going from 726 students in 2018 to 665 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 82% to 89% across the same window.
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