ARLINGTON H S

ARLINGTON H S is a high-enrollment high school in ARLINGTON, Texas, overseen by ARLINGTON ISD. The school hosts 2,580 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so ARLINGTON H S sits 224% bigger than that benchmark.

ARLINGTON ISD comprises 75 schools with combined enrollment of 53,394 students; ARLINGTON H S is among them.

On the student-mix side, ARLINGTON H S records that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 24% White, 19% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, ARLINGTON H S records 159 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 66% of students at ARLINGTON H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ARLINGTON H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.1%, the actual is 48.9%, a residual of +3.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 ARLINGTON H S is one.

SOUTH DAVIS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ARLINGTON H S at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 31.1%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ARLINGTON H S has edged down 7%, going from 2,769 students in 2018 to 2,580 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 35% to 24%.

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