ROBERTA TIPPS ACADEMY

As a medium-sized primary school in MANSFIELD, Texas, ROBERTA TIPPS ACADEMY serves 471 students from grades pre-K through 4, part of MANSFIELD ISD.

Across the 47 schools in MANSFIELD ISD (35,354 students total), ROBERTA TIPPS ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, ROBERTA TIPPS ACADEMY reports that the most-represented group is Black (32%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 30% White, 22% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 18% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 50% of students at ROBERTA TIPPS ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROBERTA TIPPS ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.0%, the actual is 62.7%, a residual of +10.7 points.

Around the school, census data for Tarrant County shows the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. ROBERTA TIPPS ACADEMY is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).

Nearest neighbor: MANSFIELD SUMMIT H S, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ROBERTA TIPPS ACADEMY comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 56.9%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. ROBERTA TIPPS ACADEMY's enrollment has ticked down 23% since 2018, when it stood at 613 (now 471). White enrollment moved from 42% to 30% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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