DANIEL WEBSTER EL

DANIEL WEBSTER EL is a K-5 school of intimate scale in DALLAS, Texas, part of DALLAS ISD, serveing 395 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so DANIEL WEBSTER EL sits 24% below that benchmark.

DANIEL WEBSTER EL is one of 240 schools operated by DALLAS ISD, a district that teaches 140,630 students overall.

On the student-mix side, DANIEL WEBSTER EL logs that 59% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 36% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DANIEL WEBSTER EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.3%, the actual is 33.6%, a residual of +2.3 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Dallas County put median household earnings sit near $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which DANIEL WEBSTER EL is one.

JOHN W CARPENTER EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DANIEL WEBSTER EL at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 33.5%.

DANIEL WEBSTER EL operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 25%: 530 students in 2018 compared to 395 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 50% to 36%.

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