BILLY EARL DADE MIDDLE

BILLY EARL DADE MIDDLE operates as a reasonably sized 6-8 campus in DALLAS, Texas, one of the schools within DALLAS ISD. Current enrollment sits at 599 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Within DALLAS ISD, which oversees 240 schools and 140,630 students, BILLY EARL DADE MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BILLY EARL DADE MIDDLE logs that Black students make up the majority at 59%. The remainder consists of 38% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, BILLY EARL DADE MIDDLE logs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BILLY EARL DADE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.6%, the actual is 23.5%, a residual of -7.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate median household income runs about $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which BILLY EARL DADE MIDDLE is one.

JAMES MADISON H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BILLY EARL DADE MIDDLE ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 49.9%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BILLY EARL DADE MIDDLE has decreased 33%, going from 894 students in 2018 to 599 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 65% to 59%.

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