Metro Opportunity

Size

Of the 26 high schools in Fort Worth ISD, Metro Opportunity is the 25th largest, with 0.1% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 3 miles away with a median enrollment of 1,005; Metro Opportunity 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 8 with 20 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 3, against an average of 10 per grade. This year grade 12 has 50% fewer students than grade 6 (3 against 6). 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

The largest group is Hispanic students: 46.6% here and 66.2% across Fort Worth ISD. Black students are next, at 45.2%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

95.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 83.1% across Fort Worth ISD and a median of 63.8% for Texas high 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 13.84 full-time-equivalent teachers for 73 students, Metro Opportunity has 5.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 73 students would have about 5.2 teachers, so Metro Opportunity has 8.6 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

Metro Opportunity is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Arlington College and Career High School, 2.3 miles away in Arlington ISD. Within 10 miles there are 51 other high schools, 10 of them within 5 miles.

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