Kirkpatrick Middle School

Size

Kirkpatrick Middle School is the 14th largest of Fort Worth ISD's 20 middle schools; its 485 students are 0.7% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 3.2 miles away and have a median of 737 students, so Kirkpatrick Middle 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 grade 6 with 179 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 149, against an average of 162 per grade. This year grade 8 has 17% fewer students than grade 6 (149 against 179). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 88.5% of enrollment, a higher share than across Fort Worth ISD (66.2%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

95.1% 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

Kirkpatrick Middle School has 31.93 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 485 students would have about 33.7 teachers, so Kirkpatrick Middle School has 1.8 fewer.

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 Elder Middle School, 1.5 miles away in the same district. There are 11 middle schools within 5 miles and 48 within 10 miles.

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