ACHZIGER EL

Located at 3300 RIDGERANCH RD, in MESQUITE, Texas, ACHZIGER EL is a mid-sized elementary campus that educates 545 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by MESQUITE ISD.

Across the 51 schools in MESQUITE ISD (37,930 students total), ACHZIGER EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, ACHZIGER EL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 39% Black, 5% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, ACHZIGER EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.5%; this one delivers 30.6%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Dallas County put median household earnings sit near $76,547, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. ACHZIGER EL is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

Nearest neighbor: DR DON WOOLLEY MIDDLE, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ACHZIGER EL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.0%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. ACHZIGER EL's enrollment has shrank 44% since 2018, when it stood at 971 (now 545). Over the same period, the Black share ticked up from 19% to 39%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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