MILLER EL

MILLER EL operates as a medium-sized elementary-level community in ARLINGTON, Texas, one of the schools within ARLINGTON ISD. Current enrollment sits at 549 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

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

Demographically, MILLER EL shows that 38% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 26% White, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 18% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MILLER EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 41.7%; MILLER EL posts 24.3%, -17.4 points below that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put median household earnings sit near $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which MILLER EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: LITTLE EL, around 1.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MILLER EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 57.9%.

MILLER EL operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MILLER EL has contracted 13%, going from 634 students in 2018 to 549 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment grew from 26% to 38% over that span.

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