Total enrollment
139,802
-5,311 (-4%) vs SY 2020-21
249 schools in DALLAS ISD
Texas · 140,630 students · 8 cities
DALLAS ISD is a public-school district inside Texas, running 249 K-12 schools with combined enrollment of roughly 140,630 students, broken out as 166 elementary, 42 middle, and 40 high.
4-year change in DALLAS ISD
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25School count
239
+7 (+3%) vs SY 2020-21
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, enrollment-weighted demographic averages
How DALLAS ISD ranks
Among districts| Measure | This district | In Texas | In the US |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.8% | #406 of 667 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 140,630 | #2 of 760 | #17 of 9,234 |
| Number of schools ranked most first | 240 | #2 of 760 | N/A |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #528 of 758 | #5,559 of 9,044 |
| Free or reduced-price lunch share ranked highest first | 89.3% | #46 of 750 | #748 of 8,164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.2% | #384 of 557 | #3,482 of 6,853 |
Districts need at least 2 schools and 500 students to be ranked. Test proficiency is ranked within the state only, since each state gives a different test. Each rank links to the full list.
Inside DALLAS ISD
State test results across the district's 227 scored schools run from School for the Talented and Gifted at 100.0% proficient to Lee A McShan Jr Elementary School at 21.3%, a gap of 78.7 points. That is the 3rd widest gap among 352 Texas districts with four or more scored schools.
Since 2017-18, the 220 district schools that reported both years went from 152,120 to 134,537 students (down 12%) and from 9,845 to 8,884 full-time teachers (down 10%), as of 2024-25.
Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across each school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25; schools with fewer than 100 students and schools serving specialized populations are left out. Staffing figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data and count only schools that reported students and teachers in both years.
About DALLAS ISD
Across 249 schools, DALLAS ISD hosts about 140,630 students in Texas. By footprint it is a moderately sized district.
On the level-by-level breakdown, DALLAS ISD covers 166 elementary, 42 middle, 40 high schools, and 1 combined or other.
Trend over the past 4 years. Across the same 4-year window, public-school enrollment shrank 4%: 145,113 students in SY 2020-21 versus 139,802 in SY 2024-25. The school count climbed from 232 to 239 across the same 4-year window.
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