ANSON JONES EL

As a moderately sized K-5 school in DALLAS, Texas, ANSON JONES EL teaches 539 students from grades pre-K through 6, overseen by DALLAS ISD.

ANSON JONES EL is one of 240 schools operated by DALLAS ISD, a district that enrolls 140,630 students overall.

On demographics, ANSON JONES EL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%). The remainder breaks down as 3% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 98% of students at ANSON JONES EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ANSON JONES EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.0%, the actual is 29.6%, a residual of -1.4 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Dallas County) records that the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), ANSON JONES EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is GOLDEN RULE, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ANSON JONES EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ANSON JONES EL at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 41.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 11%: 603 students in 2018 compared to 539 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the ANSON JONES EL community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.