DUFF EL

Set in ARLINGTON, Texas, DUFF EL is a mid-sized elementary campus, overseen by ARLINGTON ISD. It teaches 618 students across grades pre-K through 6.

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

On demographics, DUFF EL records that 52% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 32% Hispanic, 10% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, DUFF EL has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DUFF EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.1%; this one delivers 63.8%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Tarrant County shows median household earnings sit near $84,207, 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 DUFF EL is one.

BAILEY J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DUFF EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DUFF EL at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 40.2%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 622 students in 2018 compared to 618 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 22% to 32%.

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