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ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY - MIDDLE
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 28 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 17 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY - MIDDLE
Set in ARLINGTON, Texas, ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY - MIDDLE is a compact middle school, overseen by ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY. It hosts 509 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 21% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.
Within ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY, which oversees 3 schools and 1,506 students, ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY - MIDDLE is one campus in the system.
Demographically, ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY - MIDDLE logs that 31% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 23% Black, 14% Asian, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 48% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, On paper, ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY - MIDDLE has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY - MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY - MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.5%, the actual is 71.4%, a residual of +9.0 points.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate 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 ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY - MIDDLE is one.
Nearest neighbor: ILTEXAS ARLINGTON EL, around 0.4 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), ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY - MIDDLE ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 43.2%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area. ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY - MIDDLE operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY - MIDDLE has increased 7%, going from 477 students in 2018 to 509 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 40% to 31% over that span.
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