CARTER J H

Located at 701 THARP ST, in ARLINGTON, Texas, CARTER J H is a reasonably sized middle school that caters to 735 students (grades 7 through 8), overseen by ARLINGTON ISD.

ARLINGTON ISD comprises 75 schools with combined enrollment of 53,394 students; CARTER J H is among them.

Demographically, CARTER J H lists that nearly all students (85%) are Hispanic; the rest comes out to 10% Black, 2% White. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, CARTER J H lists 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting CARTER J H tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 93% of students at CARTER J H qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

After controlling for student poverty, CARTER J H is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.4%; CARTER J H posts 16.8%, -16.6 points below that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate median household earnings sit near $84,207, 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), CARTER J H is one campus in the mix.

BLANTON EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CARTER J H at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 29.5%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 36%: 1,149 students in 2018 compared to 735 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 78% to 85% across the same window.

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