SHACKELFORD J H

SHACKELFORD J H is a small middle school in ARLINGTON, Texas, part of ARLINGTON ISD. The school enrolls 510 students in grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 21% below the state mean of about 643.

Within ARLINGTON ISD, which oversees 75 schools and 53,394 students, SHACKELFORD J H is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, SHACKELFORD J H reports that 59% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 19% White, 16% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, SHACKELFORD J H reports 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting SHACKELFORD J H tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SHACKELFORD J H performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.2%, the actual is 42.5%, a residual of +0.3 points.

In the area at large, census data for Tarrant County shows median household income runs about $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which SHACKELFORD J H is one.

The closest other public school is LAMAR H S, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SHACKELFORD J H ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 41.7%.

SHACKELFORD J H operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 27%: 703 students in 2018 compared to 510 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 49% to 59% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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