Newman International Academy of Arlington

Size

Of the 4 elementary schools in Newman International Academy of Arlington, Newman International Academy of Arlington is the largest, with 23.4% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 521; Newman International Academy of Arlington is larger 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 111 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 60, against an average of 83 per grade. This year grade 6 has 17% fewer students than kindergarten (60 against 72). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 111 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 49.5% here and 43.6% across Newman International Academy of Arlington. Hispanic students are next, at 19.6%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

47.5% of its students are eligible 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

With 36.59 full-time-equivalent teachers for 663 students, Newman International Academy of Arlington has 18.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 663 students would have about 44.8 teachers, so Newman International Academy of Arlington has 8.2 fewer.

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

Location

Newman International Academy of Arlington is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is South Davis Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in Arlington ISD. Within 10 miles there are 170 other elementary schools, 52 of them within 5 miles.

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