WIMBISH WORLD LANGUAGE ACADEMY

Located at 1601 WRIGHT ST, in ARLINGTON, Texas, WIMBISH WORLD LANGUAGE ACADEMY is a compact elementary school that enrolls 411 students (grades pre-K through 6), part of ARLINGTON ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 21% below the state mean of about 519.

Within ARLINGTON ISD, which oversees 75 schools and 53,394 students, WIMBISH WORLD LANGUAGE ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, WIMBISH WORLD LANGUAGE ACADEMY reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 70%. The remainder reads as 14% Black, 12% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 69% of students at WIMBISH WORLD LANGUAGE ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WIMBISH WORLD LANGUAGE ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.0%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Tarrant County) reports that median household income runs about $84,207, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), WIMBISH WORLD LANGUAGE ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SPEER EL, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WIMBISH WORLD LANGUAGE ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, WIMBISH WORLD LANGUAGE ACADEMY comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 34.0%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

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