BOOKER T WASHINGTON SPVA MAGNET

BOOKER T WASHINGTON SPVA MAGNET, a reasonably sized high school in DALLAS, Texas, part of DALLAS ISD, instructs 970 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 22% bigger than the state mean of about 796.

Within DALLAS ISD, which oversees 240 schools and 140,630 students, BOOKER T WASHINGTON SPVA MAGNET is one campus in the system.

On demographics, BOOKER T WASHINGTON SPVA MAGNET reports that 38% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 36% Hispanic, 20% Black, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, BOOKER T WASHINGTON SPVA MAGNET reports 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 38% of students at BOOKER T WASHINGTON SPVA MAGNET qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

After controlling for student poverty, BOOKER T WASHINGTON SPVA MAGNET ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 57.1%; BOOKER T WASHINGTON SPVA MAGNET posts 87.0%, +29.9 points above that line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Dallas County put median household income runs about $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), BOOKER T WASHINGTON SPVA MAGNET is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI AT IDA B WELLS ACADEMY, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BOOKER T WASHINGTON SPVA MAGNET. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BOOKER T WASHINGTON SPVA MAGNET at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 55.6%.

BOOKER T WASHINGTON SPVA MAGNET operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 3%: 1,002 students in 2018 compared to 970 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 30% to 36% across the same window.

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