The top reported proficiency rate is 52% in English language arts. The lowest is 12% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Lizzie Curtis El
Lizzie Curtis Elementary sits in the far north Fort Worth zip code served by Northwest ISD, a district that has been growing fast enough to strain its own infrastructure. The school serves pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, making it a full elementary pathway from the earliest years through the end of primary school.
The student body is one of the more racially mixed elementary populations you will find in the region. White, Asian, Black, and Hispanic students each represent a meaningful share of enrollment, with no single group holding an outright majority. Students of two or more races add further variety. Roughly a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing the school somewhere in the middle range economically, neither a high-poverty campus nor one serving an exclusively affluent community. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in what we reviewed.
On state STAAR assessments, the picture is uneven. The school's overall proficiency index lands just below the midpoint among districts in Tarrant County, which gives a rough sense of where it stands regionally. Reading results for fifth graders are somewhat stronger, with about half of those tested reaching the "meets grade level" or higher threshold. Math scores in grades four and five hover around two-fifths of students reaching that bar, which is below the state's general aspirational range. Science results for fifth graders are a particular soft spot, with only a small fraction of tested students reaching proficiency. Parents who want to understand how science is being taught and what the school's plan is for improving those results would be wise to ask directly. Third-grade results in several subjects were suppressed due to very small tested populations, likely reflecting the Spanish-language STAAR being used for a small group of bilingual students; those numbers are not interpretable as a school-wide signal. No prior year data was available, so trend direction cannot be assessed.
The district context matters a great deal for any family considering this school. Northwest ISD passed a large bond measure a couple of years ago to build new campuses and relieve overcrowding driven by rapid growth in this part of north Fort Worth and the communities it serves. A fourth comprehensive high school and additional middle school capacity are in the pipeline. At the same time, a tax-rate election failed in late 2024, forcing the district to cut teaching positions, raise class sizes, and eliminate programs including Reading Recovery in the school year that followed. A subsequent voter-approved tax increase in late 2025 is allowing the district to partially reverse those changes, including reducing class sizes and restoring some fine arts staffing at the middle school level. Families entering the district now are landing in a period of active recovery from a budget disruption, and the pace of that recovery is worth asking about school by school.
The surrounding area reflects Fort Worth's broader growth story. This is a newer, developing edge of the city where housing is relatively affordable compared to the national market, though prices have softened slightly year over year in the zip code. The area has the character of a recently built suburban neighborhood rather than an established urban district, with easy car access to the broader Fort Worth employment base in aerospace, healthcare, and transportation but limited walkability by design. Fort Worth itself, publicly reported to be one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, continues expanding outward in exactly this direction, which shapes both the school's future enrollment trajectory and the community around it.
Programs data was not available for Lizzie Curtis Elementary specifically, so what enrichment, intervention, or specialist offerings exist at the campus level is a gap worth filling directly with the school.
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