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D A HULCY STEAM MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 22 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 33% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 18 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About D A HULCY STEAM MIDDLE
D A HULCY STEAM MIDDLE is a 6-8 campus of close-knit scale in DALLAS, Texas, run under DALLAS ISD, works with 400 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so D A HULCY STEAM MIDDLE sits 38% below that benchmark.
Within DALLAS ISD, which oversees 240 schools and 140,630 students, D A HULCY STEAM MIDDLE is one campus in the system.
On demographics, D A HULCY STEAM MIDDLE lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 62%. The remainder looks like 36% Black. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), D A HULCY STEAM MIDDLE sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 33.2%; actual is 51.0%, +17.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Dallas County) reports that median household income runs about $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%. D A HULCY STEAM MIDDLE is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).
Nearest neighbor: MARTIN WEISS EL, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, D A HULCY STEAM MIDDLE comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.6%.
D A HULCY STEAM MIDDLE operates from an urban location.
Five-year trend. D A HULCY STEAM MIDDLE's enrollment has shrank 25% since 2018, when it stood at 532 (now 400). Black enrollment moved from 42% to 36% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.
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