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What's one thing DOROTHY P ADKINS EL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
452
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DENTON ISD·NCES 481674012946
Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School
1701 MONAHAN DR, LANTANA, TX 76226 · (940) 369-1300 · Denton County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL452 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 65% of Texas public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
12%
56 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 53 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 49 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 40% smaller than its 5th grade class (81).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
73.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +40.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
63.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +36.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 40 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 36 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 47.0% | 26.0% | 15.0% | 12.0% |
| Mathematics | 33.0% | 30.0% | 19.0% | 18.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 73.0% | 63.0% |
| 2024-25 | 72.0% | 60.0% |
| 2023-24 | 71.0% | 64.0% |
| 2022-23 | 50.0% | 47.0% |
| 2021-22 | 65.0% | 53.0% |
| 2020-21 | 33.0% | 27.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
59.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.4%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School
Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School's state test result (59.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School this school | 452 | 12.4% | 59.8% |
| Westside Elementary School CEDAR PARK | 504 | 9.9% | 58.0% |
| Dean and Mildred Bennett Elementary School MCKINNEY | 425 | 14.1% | 63.7% |
| Hidden Lakes Elementary School KELLER | 396 | 8.3% | 84.9% |
| Roy Lee Walker Elementary School MCKINNEY | 381 | 16.5% | 70.8% |
| Steiner Ranch Elementary School AUSTIN | 417 | 11.8% | 63.8% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Denton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.8% | #772 of 4,401 | #52 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #760 of 4,466 ▲ 104 | #41 of 138 ▲ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #568 of 4,466 ▲ 59 | #44 of 138 ▲ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +19.5pp | #515 of 3,998 | #12 of 129 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 452 | #2,997 of 4,938 | #111 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #826 of 4,622 | #42 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.9% | #1,706 of 4,628 | #106 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.4% | #4,601 of 4,789 | #106 of 143 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +18.0% | #471 of 1,307 | #17 of 48 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
452
+17 (+4%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 12.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 452 | 34.7 | 13.0:1 | 12% (56) |
| 2023-24 | 441 | 35.2 | 12.6:1 | 14% (60) |
| 2022-23 | 448 | 34.2 | 13.1:1 | 13% (57) |
| 2020-21 | 435 | 36 | 12.1:1 | 14% (63) |
| 2017-18 | 383 | 28 | 13.7:1 | 8% (31) |
| 2015-16 | 353 | 26 | 13.6:1 | 9% (32) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 18% (383 to 452); teachers up 24% (28 to 34.7).
About Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School
LANTANA, Texas, is home to Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 452 students.
DENTON ISD has 33,329 students spread across 46 schools.
More than half of the students at Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School are White (62%). The remaining shares are 18% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 6% multiracial, and 4% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School scores 57%.
Based on 34.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School has a ratio of 13.0:1. The gap from the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas is 2.1 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 12%. Among public schools in Denton County, the average eligibility rate is 35%.
On the allk12 Grade, Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School lands at B+, ahead of 65% of Texas public elementary schools.
Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School is 8.6 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (59.8% versus 68.4%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Texas.
Denton County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $111,498, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 49%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. There are 267 public schools in the county, enrolling about 175,222, Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School among them.
Ep Rayzor Elementary School is about 1.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School at 8th of 8.
The NCES locale for Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose from 435 to 452, a 4% increase.
The allk12 page for Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Denton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
979,561
Census ACS
Median income
$111,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
267
175,222 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in DENTON ISD
- Ray Braswell High SchoolHigh · 2,812 students
- Guyer High SchoolHigh · 2,577 students
- Denton High SchoolHigh · 2,083 students
- Ryan High SchoolHigh · 2,051 students
- Strickland Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
- Crownover Middle SchoolMiddle · 891 students
Other schools in LANTANA
- Harpool Middle SchoolMiddle · 860 students
- Ep Rayzor Elementary SchoolElementary · 510 students
- Blanton Elementary SchoolElementary · 470 students
Nearby schools
- Ep Rayzor Elementary School1.2 mi · 510
- STEM Academy at Clayton Downing Middle School1.4 mi · 531
- Universal Academy-Bartonville1.7 mi · 111
- STEM Academy at Bridlewood Elementary School1.9 mi · 569
- Founders Classical Academy of Flower Mound2.2 mi · 949
- Heritage Elementary School2.3 mi · 476
Frequently asked questions
About Dorothy P Adkins Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School?
Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School enrolls approximately 452 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School serve?
Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School?
Approximately 13.0:1 students per teacher at Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School?
Student demographics at Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School are roughly 62% White, 18% Hispanic, 4% Black, 10% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School in?
Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School is part of DENTON ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.