DARTMOUTH EL

DARTMOUTH EL is an intimate elementary school in RICHARDSON, Texas, one of the schools within RICHARDSON ISD. The school works with 425 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Within RICHARDSON ISD, which oversees 55 schools and 38,526 students, DARTMOUTH EL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, DARTMOUTH EL records that the most-represented group is White (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 21% Black, 20% Asian, 19% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Dallas County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting DARTMOUTH EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DARTMOUTH EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.6%.

In the broader community, census data for Dallas County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. DARTMOUTH EL is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

APOLLO J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DARTMOUTH EL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 46.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 5%: 404 students in 2018 compared to 425 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 44% to 35% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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