GREAT HEARTS ARLINGTON

GREAT HEARTS ARLINGTON, a heavily attended K-12 campus in ARLINGTON, Texas, run under GREAT HEARTS TEXAS, educates 998 students, covering grades K through 10. Enrollment runs roughly 106% larger than the state mean of about 485.

Across the 13 schools in GREAT HEARTS TEXAS (12,926 students total), GREAT HEARTS ARLINGTON accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, GREAT HEARTS ARLINGTON records that 35% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 23% Black, 12% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 48% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, GREAT HEARTS ARLINGTON lists 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.7:1, putting GREAT HEARTS ARLINGTON higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 48% of students are eligible 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, GREAT HEARTS ARLINGTON performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.7%, the actual is 50.1%, a residual of -2.6 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put median household earnings sit near $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. GREAT HEARTS ARLINGTON is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).

Nearest neighbor: KENNETH DAVIS EL, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, GREAT HEARTS ARLINGTON comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.8%.

The school occupies a downtown site. GREAT HEARTS ARLINGTON is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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