WORKMAN J H

As a sprawling intermediate school in ARLINGTON, Texas, WORKMAN J H serves 1,162 students from grades 7 through 8, part of ARLINGTON ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 81% bigger than the state mean of about 643.

ARLINGTON ISD runs 75 schools in total, collectively educating 53,394 students. WORKMAN J H is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, WORKMAN J H records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 22% Black, 5% Asian, 4% White. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, WORKMAN J H has 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 89% of students at WORKMAN J H qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

After controlling for student poverty, WORKMAN J H performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.9%, the actual is 24.4%, a residual of -10.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Tarrant County) logs that median household income runs about $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), WORKMAN J H is one campus in the mix.

MCNUTT EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WORKMAN J H. On composite proficiency, WORKMAN J H comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 23%: 1,501 students in 2018 compared to 1,162 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 62% to 67% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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