GOODMAN EL

Located at 1400 REBECCA LN, in ARLINGTON, Texas, GOODMAN EL is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school that hosts 452 students (grades pre-K through 6), one of the schools within ARLINGTON ISD.

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

On the student-mix side, GOODMAN EL reports that nearly all students (82%) are Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 11% Black, 4% White. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.1:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GOODMAN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.1%, the actual is 25.6%, a residual of -8.5 points.

Across the wider 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. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), GOODMAN EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: AMOS EL, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GOODMAN EL at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 29.9%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 19%: 561 students in 2018 compared to 452 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 71% to 82%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

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