Atwood McDonald Elementary School

Size

Of the 81 elementary schools in Fort Worth ISD, Atwood McDonald Elementary School is the 78th largest, with 0.4% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.3 miles away and have a median of 375 students, so Atwood McDonald Elementary School is smaller than most of them.

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 pre-K with 46 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 29, against an average of 37 per grade. This year grade 5 has 22% fewer students than kindergarten (29 against 37). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 46 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 69% of enrollment, a higher share than across Fort Worth ISD (18.6%). Hispanic students are next, at 20.7%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

95% 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

Atwood McDonald Elementary School has 19.72 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 261 students would have about 17.6 teachers, so Atwood McDonald Elementary School has 2.1 more.

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 Newman International Academy at Fort Worth, 0.5 miles away in Newman International Academy of Arlington. There are 43 elementary schools within 5 miles and 178 within 10 miles.

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