BIRDIE ALEXANDER EL

Set in DALLAS, Texas, BIRDIE ALEXANDER EL is a modestly sized primary school, run under DALLAS ISD. It enrolls 259 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so BIRDIE ALEXANDER EL sits 50% below that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, BIRDIE ALEXANDER EL logs that 74% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school lists 22% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, BIRDIE ALEXANDER EL reports 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at BIRDIE ALEXANDER EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, 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.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BIRDIE ALEXANDER EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.9%, the actual is 24.1%, a residual of -7.8 points.

Around the school, Dallas County reports that median household earnings sit near $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. BIRDIE ALEXANDER EL is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

Nearest neighbor: DAVID W CARTER H S, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BIRDIE ALEXANDER EL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 36.1%.

BIRDIE ALEXANDER EL operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 31%: 373 students in 2018 compared to 259 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.