BOWIE H S

BOWIE H S operates as a roomy 9-12 campus in ARLINGTON, Texas, overseen by ARLINGTON ISD. Current enrollment sits at 2,140 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 169% above the state mean of about 796.

Within ARLINGTON ISD, which oversees 75 schools and 53,394 students, BOWIE H S is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, BOWIE H S shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 41%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 37% Black, 13% Asian, 5% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, BOWIE H S records 150 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BOWIE H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.2%; this one delivers 39.3%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate median household income runs about $84,207, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which BOWIE H S is one.

FITZGERALD EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BOWIE H S comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.2%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. BOWIE H S's enrollment has fell 21% since 2018, when it stood at 2,716 (now 2,140). The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 36% to 41% over that span.

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