SOUTH DAVIS EL

SOUTH DAVIS EL is a reasonably sized elementary school in ARLINGTON, Texas, part of ARLINGTON ISD. The school works with 669 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 29% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

ARLINGTON ISD comprises 75 schools with combined enrollment of 53,394 students; SOUTH DAVIS EL is among them.

In terms of who attends, SOUTH DAVIS EL logs that 73% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 17% Black, 8% White. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, SOUTH DAVIS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.3%, the actual is 22.7%, a residual of -11.7 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put median household income runs about $84,207, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which SOUTH DAVIS EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: NEWMAN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ARLINGTON, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOUTH DAVIS EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 36.3%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOUTH DAVIS EL has stayed largely flat, going from 676 students in 2018 to 669 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 64% to 73% across the same window.

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