ARCADIA PARK EL

ARCADIA PARK EL is a moderately sized elementary-level community in DALLAS, Texas, part of DALLAS ISD. The school instructs 568 students in grades pre-K through 6.

ARCADIA PARK EL is one of 240 schools operated by DALLAS ISD, a district that instructs 140,630 students overall.

Demographically, ARCADIA PARK EL lists that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 6% 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 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, ARCADIA PARK EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.4%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Dallas County) records that the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), ARCADIA PARK EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is GABE P ALLEN NEW TECH ACADEMY, roughly 1.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ARCADIA PARK EL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 13%: 652 students in 2018 compared to 568 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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