ATHERTON EL

ATHERTON EL, a mid-sized elementary campus in ARLINGTON, Texas, part of ARLINGTON ISD, serves 474 students, covering grades pre-K through 6.

ARLINGTON ISD runs 75 schools in total, collectively educating 53,394 students. ATHERTON EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, ATHERTON EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment; the rest looks like 25% Black, 5% White, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ATHERTON EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ATHERTON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.0%, the actual is 34.8%, a residual of -1.3 points.

In the area at large, Tarrant County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which ATHERTON EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: SAM HOUSTON H S, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ATHERTON EL. On composite proficiency, ATHERTON EL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 29.6%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. ATHERTON EL's enrollment has decreased 23% since 2018, when it stood at 615 (now 474). Hispanic enrollment moved from 53% to 63% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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