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MARTHA REID ACADEMY
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 26 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MARTHA REID ACADEMY
MARTHA REID ACADEMY, a reasonably sized K-5 school in ARLINGTON, Texas, one of the schools within MANSFIELD ISD, educates 493 students, covering grades pre-K through 4.
MANSFIELD ISD comprises 47 schools with combined enrollment of 35,354 students; MARTHA REID ACADEMY is among them.
On the student-mix side, MARTHA REID ACADEMY shows that 37% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 28% White, 24% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.
On the resource side, The school reports having 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 48% 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 somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MARTHA REID ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.0%, the actual is 54.8%, a residual of +1.9 points.
Around the school, census data for Tarrant County shows the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, 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), MARTHA REID ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: UME MANSFIELD EL, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MARTHA REID ACADEMY comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.7%.
MARTHA REID ACADEMY operates from a high-density location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 22%: 633 students in 2018 compared to 493 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 40% to 28% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.
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