Int'l Newcomer Academy

Size

Int'l Newcomer Academy is the 16th largest of Fort Worth ISD's 20 middle schools; its 429 students are 0.6% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 1.9 miles away and have a median of 496 students, so Int'l Newcomer Academy is close to their typical size.

NCES lists it as an alternative school: one that serves students whose needs a regular school may not meet, or that offers a non-traditional program alongside regular schools.

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 9 with 154 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 54, against an average of 107 per grade. This year grade 9 has 185% more students than grade 6 (154 against 54). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 73.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across Fort Worth ISD (66.2%). White students are next, at 12.1%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

98.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 83.1% across Fort Worth ISD and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

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

Teachers

Int'l Newcomer Academy has 25.24 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 429 students would have about 29.8 teachers, so Int'l Newcomer Academy has 4.6 fewer.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other middle school is IDEA Southeast College Preparatory, 0.5 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. There are 18 middle schools within 5 miles and 44 within 10 miles.

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