DELLA ICENHOWER INT

DELLA ICENHOWER INT is a mid-sized junior high in ARLINGTON, Texas, part of MANSFIELD ISD. The school instructs 619 students in grades 5 through 6.

MANSFIELD ISD comprises 47 schools with combined enrollment of 35,354 students; DELLA ICENHOWER INT is among them.

In terms of who attends, DELLA ICENHOWER INT lists that 49% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 23% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 10% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 18% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DELLA ICENHOWER INT performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.8%, the actual is 46.1%, a residual of +1.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Tarrant County) records that 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. DELLA ICENHOWER INT is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).

DR SARAH JANDRUCKO ACADEMY FOR EARLY LEARNERS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DELLA ICENHOWER INT. On composite proficiency, DELLA ICENHOWER INT comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 57.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 31%: 895 students in 2018 compared to 619 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 15% to 10% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.