John T White Elementary School

Size

Of the 81 elementary schools in Fort Worth ISD, John T White Elementary School is the 57th largest, with 0.5% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 372; John T White Elementary School is close to their typical size.

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 3 with 65 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 39, against an average of 53 per grade. This year grade 5 has 24% more students than kindergarten (57 against 46). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 57 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 61% here and 18.6% across Fort Worth ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 33.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

95.1% of its students are eligible 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

With 28.57 full-time-equivalent teachers for 369 students, John T White Elementary School has 12.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 369 students would have about 24.9 teachers, so John T White Elementary School has 3.7 more.

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

Location

John T White Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Uplift Crescendo Prep Ps, 0.7 miles away in Uplift Education. Within 10 miles there are 174 other elementary schools, 42 of them within 5 miles.

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