Forest Oak Middle School

Size

Of the 20 middle schools in Fort Worth ISD, Forest Oak Middle School is the 2nd largest, with 1.5% of the district's students. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 2.6 miles away and have a median of 452 students, so Forest Oak Middle School is larger than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 6 with 353 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 345, against an average of 348 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 353 in grade 6 and 346 in grade 8.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 59.3% of enrollment, a lower share than across Fort Worth ISD (66.2%). Black students are next, at 30.8%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

96.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 83.1% across Fort Worth ISD and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle 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

Forest Oak Middle School has 78.04 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 1,044 students would have about 72.5 teachers, so Forest Oak Middle School has 5.5 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

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 middle school is IDEA Southeast College Preparatory, 0.7 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. There are 17 middle schools within 5 miles and 45 within 10 miles.

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