MARILYN MILLER LANGUAGE ACADEMY

MARILYN MILLER LANGUAGE ACADEMY is a moderately sized K-5 school in FORT WORTH, Texas, run under LAKE WORTH ISD. The school educates 509 students in grades 1 through 5.

LAKE WORTH ISD runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,249 students. MARILYN MILLER LANGUAGE ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MARILYN MILLER LANGUAGE ACADEMY logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. Other groups include 20% Black, 9% White. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, MARILYN MILLER LANGUAGE ACADEMY logs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, MARILYN MILLER LANGUAGE ACADEMY falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 34.1%; this one comes in at 8.8%, -25.3 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Tarrant County) records that median household income runs about $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. MARILYN MILLER LANGUAGE ACADEMY is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).

The closest other public school is LUCYLE COLLINS MIDDLE, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MARILYN MILLER LANGUAGE ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, MARILYN MILLER LANGUAGE ACADEMY comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 37.2%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 15%: 601 students in 2018 compared to 509 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked up from 4% to 20% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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