WEST EL

WEST EL is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, part of ARLINGTON ISD, educateing 607 students in grades pre-K through 6.

ARLINGTON ISD comprises 75 schools with combined enrollment of 53,394 students; WEST EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, WEST EL logs that the largest single group is Black at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 22% Hispanic, 22% Asian, 12% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 18% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 74% of students are eligible 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, WEST EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.6%; this one delivers 44.0%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put median household income runs about $84,207, 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 EL is one campus in the mix.

STARRETT EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WEST EL at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 36.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WEST EL has declined 10%, going from 675 students in 2018 to 607 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment edged down from 29% to 22% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.