ARTHUR KRAMER EL

Set in DALLAS, Texas, ARTHUR KRAMER EL is a close-knit elementary school, run under DALLAS ISD. It works with 399 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 23% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

DALLAS ISD comprises 240 schools with combined enrollment of 140,630 students; ARTHUR KRAMER EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ARTHUR KRAMER EL reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 31% Black, 11% White, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ARTHUR KRAMER EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ARTHUR KRAMER EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.3%; this one delivers 46.3%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate 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), ARTHUR KRAMER EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is GEORGE B DEALEY MONTESSORI ACADEMY, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ARTHUR KRAMER EL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. ARTHUR KRAMER EL's enrollment has contracted 35% since 2018, when it stood at 615 (now 399). Over the same period, the Black share expanded from 20% to 31%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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