DORIE MILLER INT

DORIE MILLER INT, a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in ENNIS, Texas, one of the schools within ENNIS ISD, works with 447 students, covering grades 4 through 5.

ENNIS ISD runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 6,646 students. DORIE MILLER INT is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, DORIE MILLER INT records that 57% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 27% White, 14% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, DORIE MILLER INT has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Ellis County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DORIE MILLER INT performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.7%, the actual is 44.4%, a residual of -1.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, Ellis County reports that median household earnings sit near $99,595, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Ellis County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,344 students), DORIE MILLER INT is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is DAVID S CROCKETT EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DORIE MILLER INT. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DORIE MILLER INT ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 43.6%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DORIE MILLER INT has declined 31%, going from 644 students in 2018 to 447 in 2025.

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