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ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY -INTERMEDIATE
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 20 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY -INTERMEDIATE
ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY -INTERMEDIATE is an elementary school of medium-sized scale in ARLINGTON, Texas, part of ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY, instructing 524 students in grades 3 through 5.
Within ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY, which oversees 3 schools and 1,506 students, ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY -INTERMEDIATE is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY -INTERMEDIATE reports that the most-represented group is White (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 23% Hispanic, 20% Black, 15% Asian, 10% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY -INTERMEDIATE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.6%; this one delivers 61.1%.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put median household income runs about $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 ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY -INTERMEDIATE is one.
The closest other public school is ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY - ARKANSAS CAMPUS, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY -INTERMEDIATE at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 42.1%.
ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY -INTERMEDIATE operates from a residential location. As a public charter, ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY -INTERMEDIATE runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 525 students in 2018 compared to 524 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 42% to 33% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.
In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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