ADAMS EL

ADAMS EL is a K-5 school of medium-sized scale in ARLINGTON, Texas, one of the schools within ARLINGTON ISD, educateing 743 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so ADAMS EL sits 43% larger than that benchmark.

ADAMS EL is one of 75 schools operated by ARLINGTON ISD, a district that serves 53,394 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ADAMS EL logs that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 33% Black, 10% Asian, 6% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ADAMS EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.0%.

Around the school, Tarrant County reports that median household earnings sit near $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which ADAMS EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: JOHNS EL, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ADAMS EL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 27.3%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ADAMS EL has contracted 9%, going from 817 students in 2018 to 743 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 39% to 50% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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