TURNING POINT SECONDARY SCHOOL

TURNING POINT SECONDARY SCHOOL is one of the micro-enrollment high schools in ARLINGTON, Texas, run under ARLINGTON ISD, with 74 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 91% leaner than the state mean of about 796.

Within ARLINGTON ISD, which oversees 75 schools and 53,394 students, TURNING POINT SECONDARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, TURNING POINT SECONDARY SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is Black (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 43% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 18% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, TURNING POINT SECONDARY SCHOOL reports 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 2.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting TURNING POINT SECONDARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Tarrant County shows median household income runs about $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 TURNING POINT SECONDARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is BUTLER EL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 32%: 109 students in 2018 compared to 74 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 33% to 43%.

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