CENTRAL EL

CENTRAL EL operates as a mid-sized elementary campus in CARROLLTON, Texas, one of the schools within CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD. Current enrollment sits at 455 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD runs 39 schools in total, collectively educating 24,165 students. CENTRAL EL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, CENTRAL EL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%); the rest consists of 2% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting CENTRAL EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 88% of students at CENTRAL EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CENTRAL EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.5%; this one delivers 32.7%.

Around the school, 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 the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which CENTRAL EL is one.

TURNER H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CENTRAL EL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CENTRAL EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CENTRAL EL has contracted 22%, going from 581 students in 2018 to 455 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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