Newman International Academy Watauga

Size

Of the 4 elementary schools in Newman International Academy of Arlington, Newman International Academy Watauga is the 2nd largest, with 10.8% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.2 miles away and have a median of 472 students, so Newman International Academy Watauga 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 86 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 7, against an average of 31 per grade. This year grade 8 has 87% fewer students than kindergarten (7 against 55). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 86 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 38.6% of enrollment, a higher share than across Newman International Academy of Arlington (18.8%). Black students are next, at 28.4%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

35.9% 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 Watauga has 11.73 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 26.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 306 students would have about 20.7 teachers, so Newman International Academy Watauga has 9 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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Whitley Road Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in Keller ISD. There are 43 elementary schools within 5 miles and 137 within 10 miles.

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