The top reported proficiency rate is 30% in Math. The lowest is 0% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Greenbriar El
Greenbriar Elementary sits on Grady Lee Street in Fort Worth's 76134 zip code, serving children from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade as part of Fort Worth ISD, one of the largest school districts in Texas. The school enrolls a few hundred students, with pre-K through fifth grade spread across roughly even cohorts. The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with a substantial Black minority and smaller shares of other groups. Nearly all students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places this squarely among high-poverty elementary schools in the district and in Tarrant County broadly.
The 2024-25 STAAR results tell a candid story. On the Texas assessment, the school's overall proficiency index lands in the bottom quartile relative to districts across Tarrant County, the comparison set the data uses. In math, proficiency rates across third, fourth, and fifth grade are low, with fourth grade performing the best of the three but still well below the state median one would hope to see. Reading and language arts results are uneven in a way worth noting: a substantial share of third and fifth graders were assessed on the STAAR Spanish version rather than the English version, which reflects a bilingual or dual-language instructional pathway for a portion of students. The Spanish-version proficiency rates are very low, including a near-zero result for one grade. Fourth-grade ELA, tested in English, comes in noticeably higher than the other grades. Science results for fifth grade, also assessed in Spanish for a small group, show no students reaching proficiency in this year's data. Social studies results are also very low across the board.
The multi-year trend data covers only a single year, so it is not possible to say whether performance is improving, holding steady, or declining. A parent who wants to understand trajectory should ask the school directly about prior-year results and any academic recovery or intervention programs in place.
One practical interpretation of the Spanish-assessment pattern: a portion of students at Greenbriar appear to be in a Spanish-language or bilingual instructional program, at least through the upper elementary grades. For a Spanish-speaking family looking for a bilingual environment, that is worth exploring with the school. For a family expecting English-medium instruction throughout, that is also worth clarifying, since the grade-level assessments suggest both pathways are present.
English learner counts and IEP data were not available in the data provided, so those dimensions of student support are gaps a parent may want to look into further with the school. Attendance and chronic absenteeism data were also absent.
Fort Worth itself is one of the country's fastest-growing cities, publicly reported to have recently crossed the one-million-resident mark and to have added more residents in a recent year than any other city in the region. Growth is concentrated on the western and northwestern edges, though the broader city is investing heavily in mixed-use development and infrastructure. Housing values in the school's zip code are meaningfully below the Texas statewide median and well below the national median, which makes this one of the more accessible entry points into Fort Worth homeownership. Rents in the area are modest relative to the wider DFW market, though Fort Worth rents overall have risen sharply amid the population boom.
Fort Worth ISD serves most of Fort Worth plus several surrounding communities, and its campuses are spread across a large geography. The district brief search did not return confirmed recent strategic changes or specific initiatives to report, so that was left out rather than guessed at.
For a family entering this school, the honest picture is an elementary campus in a high-poverty, majority-Hispanic neighborhood, with bilingual instructional programming for a share of students and tested proficiency rates that are low across subjects and grades. The data does not explain what support structures or improvement efforts are underway, which is the most important follow-up question for any parent considering enrollment.
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