BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INTERNATIONAL EXPLORATORY ACAD

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INTERNATIONAL EXPLORATORY ACAD operates as a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in DALLAS, Texas, operated by DALLAS ISD. Current enrollment sits at 808 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INTERNATIONAL EXPLORATORY ACAD sits 26% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 240 schools in DALLAS ISD (140,630 students total), BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INTERNATIONAL EXPLORATORY ACAD accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INTERNATIONAL EXPLORATORY ACAD records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 18% Black, 6% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INTERNATIONAL EXPLORATORY ACAD shows 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INTERNATIONAL EXPLORATORY ACAD sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.2%; this one delivers 39.8%.

Around the school, census data for Dallas County shows 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%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INTERNATIONAL EXPLORATORY ACAD is one campus in the mix.

HILLCREST H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INTERNATIONAL EXPLORATORY ACAD comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.3%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INTERNATIONAL EXPLORATORY ACAD's enrollment has contracted 22% since 2018, when it stood at 1,035 (now 808). Class-load math has widened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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