Bill Arnold Middle School

Size

Bill Arnold Middle School is the largest of Grand Prairie ISD's 6 middle schools; its 1,081 students are 4.1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 3.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 491; Bill Arnold Middle School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 6 with 387 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 341, against an average of 360 per grade. This year grade 8 has 12% fewer students than grade 6 (341 against 387). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 81.1% here and 70% across Grand Prairie ISD. Black students are next, at 11.4%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

87.4% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 73.3% across Grand Prairie ISD and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 56.74 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,081 students, Bill Arnold Middle School has 19.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 1,081 students would have about 75.1 teachers, so Bill Arnold Middle School has 18.4 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

Location

Bill Arnold Middle School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other middle school is Uplift Grand Prep Middle School, 1.9 miles away in Uplift Education. Within 10 miles there are 50 other middle schools, 6 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.