BAILEY J H

BAILEY J H is a junior high of middle-of-the-pack scale in ARLINGTON, Texas, one of the schools within ARLINGTON ISD, educateing 754 students in grades 7 through 8.

Across the 75 schools in ARLINGTON ISD (53,394 students total), BAILEY J H accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BAILEY J H logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 29% White, 17% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, BAILEY J H has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BAILEY J H performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.2%, the actual is 44.0%, a residual of -0.2 points.

Around the school, Tarrant County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which BAILEY J H is one.

Nearest neighbor: HILL EL, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BAILEY J H ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 43.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 11%: 844 students in 2018 compared to 754 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 41% to 29% across the same window.

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