JOHNS EL

JOHNS EL is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary-level communitys in ARLINGTON, Texas, run under ARLINGTON ISD, with 560 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6.

Within ARLINGTON ISD, which oversees 75 schools and 53,394 students, JOHNS EL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JOHNS EL lists that nearly all students (83%) are Hispanic. The remainder is composed of 11% Black, 4% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Tarrant County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JOHNS EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.0%; this one delivers 22.8%.

Across the wider county, 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), JOHNS EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ADAMS EL, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOHNS EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JOHNS EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 27.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 22%: 718 students in 2018 compared to 560 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 71% to 83%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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