NEWMAN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ARLINGTON

NEWMAN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ARLINGTON, a moderately sized elementary school in ARLINGTON, Texas, part of NEWMAN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ARLINGTON, caters to 663 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 28% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Within NEWMAN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ARLINGTON, which oversees 6 schools and 2,830 students, NEWMAN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ARLINGTON is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, NEWMAN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ARLINGTON records that the largest single group is Black at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 20% Hispanic, 19% White, 9% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting NEWMAN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ARLINGTON higher than the state norm the norm. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Tarrant County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NEWMAN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ARLINGTON sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.1%; this one delivers 41.3%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Tarrant County shows median household earnings sit near $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), NEWMAN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ARLINGTON is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SOUTH DAVIS EL, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, NEWMAN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ARLINGTON comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 39.0%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. NEWMAN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ARLINGTON operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. NEWMAN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ARLINGTON's enrollment has fell 24% since 2018, when it stood at 870 (now 663). The Black share of enrollment increased from 30% to 49% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

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