T a Sims Elementary School

Size

Of the 81 elementary schools in Fort Worth ISD, T a Sims Elementary School is the 7th largest, with 0.8% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 0.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 437; T a Sims Elementary School is larger 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 97 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 65, against an average of 81 per grade. This year grade 5 has 31% more students than kindergarten (85 against 65). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 97 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 94.5% here and 66.2% across Fort Worth ISD. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

97.2% 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 34.3 full-time-equivalent teachers for 566 students, T a Sims Elementary School has 16.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 566 students would have about 38.2 teachers, so T a Sims Elementary School has 3.9 fewer.

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

Location

T a Sims Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Rocketship Dennis Dunkins Elementary School, 0.3 miles away in Rocketship Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 165 other elementary schools, 48 of them within 5 miles.

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