ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS, an one-room-style intermediate school in FORT WORTH, Texas, one of the schools within ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS, educates 146 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS sits 77% smaller than that benchmark.

ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS is a school of ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Looking at the student body, ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS logs that the largest single group is Black, at 61% of enrollment. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 6% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 18% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 2% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 73.0%; ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS posts 22.8%, -50.1 points below that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Tarrant County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: TRINITY BASIN PREPARATORY - FORT WORTH, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 25.4%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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