D P MORRIS EL

D P MORRIS EL operates as an average-sized primary school in ARLINGTON, Texas, run under MANSFIELD ISD. Current enrollment sits at 545 students spanning grades K through 4.

MANSFIELD ISD comprises 47 schools with combined enrollment of 35,354 students; D P MORRIS EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, D P MORRIS EL shows that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 23% Black, 8% White, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, D P MORRIS EL has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, D P MORRIS EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.6%; this one delivers 40.2%.

Across the wider county, census data for Tarrant County shows the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. D P MORRIS EL is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).

MANSFIELD SUMMIT H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, D P MORRIS EL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at D P MORRIS EL has declined 6%, going from 578 students in 2018 to 545 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 48% to 62% over that span.

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