Newman International Academy at Fort Worth

Size

Of the 4 elementary schools in Newman International Academy of Arlington, Newman International Academy at Fort Worth is the 3rd largest, with 9% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.3 miles away and have a median of 375 students, so Newman International Academy at Fort Worth is smaller than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 pre-K with 62 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 23, against an average of 32 per grade. This year grade 6 has 22% fewer students than kindergarten (25 against 32). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 62 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 57.3% of enrollment, a higher share than across Newman International Academy of Arlington (43.6%). Hispanic students are next, at 29%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

54.9% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 37.3% across Newman International Academy of Arlington and a median of 72% for Texas elementary 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

Newman International Academy at Fort Worth has 10.37 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 24.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 255 students would have about 17.2 teachers, so Newman International Academy at Fort Worth has 6.8 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

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 elementary school is East Handley Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in Fort Worth ISD. There are 44 elementary schools within 5 miles and 181 within 10 miles.

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