Schools · Arlington
Arlington, TX schools
Kids attend one of 44 schools through grade 6, then one of 10 middle schools and one of 7 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
C−
Arlington’s School Grade: C-
The public schools Arlington’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 79% of Texas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
C-Test scoresDGraduation
Texas school districts we grade (1,185)Better than 21%
Lower resultsHigher results
Texas towns with similar household incomes (689)Better than 11%
High confidence. Built on 25,449 tested students and a graduating class of 4,510; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Texas’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2019.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Texas only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Texas with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Arlington kids go to school
Grades 7–8
10 middle schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Arlington Independent School DistrictGrades 9–12
7 high schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Arlington Independent School DistrictBased on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
State test results
Math (grades PK–12, Arlington Independent)24%
State average 36.5%
Graduation · class of 2019
87% graduate on time
Graduation rate
87%
TX: 90.2%
Graduating class
4,510
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #499 of 584 TX towns →
Districts
The district serving Arlington
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 118 schools in Arlington
Showing 1–30 of 118 schools
PEACH ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 936 students
DPublicTHORNTON ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 849 students
DPublicVIRIDIAN ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 845 students
APublicMOORE ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 839 students
BPublicBEBENSEE ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 765 students
DPublicELLIS ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 753 students
DPublicADAMS ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 743 students
C-PublicLITTLE ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 740 students
B-PublicDITTO ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 734 students
A-PublicWOOD ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 732 students
B-PublicBERRY ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 727 students
D-PublicUPLIFT SUMMIT PREP PSElementary · Grades PK–5 · 688 students
CCharterSPEER ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 682 students
DPublicMCNUTT ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 675 students
DPublicSOUTH DAVIS ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 669 students
DPublicILTEXAS ARLINGTON ELElementary · Grades PK–5 · 663 students
DCharterNEWMAN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ARLINGTONElementary · Grades PK–6 · 663 students
BCharterDUFF ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 618 students
A-PublicBUTLER ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 610 students
APublicWEBB ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 608 students
DPublicWILLIAMS ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 577 students
C-PublicRANKIN ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 562 students
DPublicBURGIN ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 561 students
DPublicJOHNS ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 560 students
DPublicHILL ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 557 students
BPublicMILLER ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 549 students
CPublicD P MORRIS ELElementary · Grades K–4 · 545 students
C+PublicFOSTER ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 524 students
DPublicSWIFT ELElementary · Grades PK–6 · 517 students
DPublicPEARCY STEM ACADEMYElementary · Grades PK–6 · 511 students
B-PublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.