Alice Carlson Applied Lrn Center

Size

Of the 81 elementary schools in Fort Worth ISD, Alice Carlson Applied Lrn Center is the 54th largest, with 0.5% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.7 miles away and have a median of 518 students, so Alice Carlson Applied Lrn Center is smaller than most of them.

NCES lists it as an alternative school: one that serves students whose needs a regular school may not meet, or that offers a non-traditional program alongside regular schools.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 2 with 65 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 59, against an average of 63 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 64 in kindergarten and 59 in grade 5.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 56.2% of enrollment, a higher share than across Fort Worth ISD (11.3%). Hispanic students are next, at 31.7%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

25.9% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 83.1% across Fort Worth ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Alice Carlson Applied Lrn Center has 23.47 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 379 students would have about 25.6 teachers, so Alice Carlson Applied Lrn Center has 2.1 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Tanglewood Elementary School, 1.3 miles away in the same district. There are 49 elementary schools within 5 miles and 145 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.