BURGIN EL

BURGIN EL is a K-5 school of mid-tier scale in ARLINGTON, Texas, one of the schools within ARLINGTON ISD, teacheing 561 students in grades pre-K through 6.

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

Looking at the student body, BURGIN EL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 70% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 18% Black, 6% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, BURGIN EL has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 91% of students at BURGIN EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Tarrant County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BURGIN EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.3%; this one delivers 30.3%.

In the broader community, 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 roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), BURGIN EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: MORTON EL, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BURGIN EL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 27.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 5%: 590 students in 2018 compared to 561 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 55% to 70% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

On this page, members of the BURGIN EL community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.