WEST HANDLEY EL

WEST HANDLEY EL is one of the modestly sized primary schools in FORT WORTH, Texas, part of FORT WORTH ISD, with 341 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so WEST HANDLEY EL sits 34% smaller than that benchmark.

FORT WORTH ISD comprises 136 schools with combined enrollment of 70,612 students; WEST HANDLEY EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WEST HANDLEY EL reports that 74% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 17% Black, 5% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting WEST HANDLEY EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 96% of students at WEST HANDLEY EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, WEST HANDLEY EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 31.9%; actual is 17.9%, a gap of -14.0 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate median household earnings sit near $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), WEST HANDLEY EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: JEAN MCCLUNG MIDDLE, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WEST HANDLEY EL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 27.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 35%: 525 students in 2018 compared to 341 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 26% to 17% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 today.

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