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DORRIS A JONES EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 24 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 13 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About DORRIS A JONES EL
Located at 2051 TRAIL GLEN, in ROCKWALL, Texas, DORRIS A JONES EL is a mid-sized elementary-level community that teaches 636 students (grades pre-K through 6), overseen by ROCKWALL ISD. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 23% larger than typical.
DORRIS A JONES EL is one of 22 schools operated by ROCKWALL ISD, a district that works with 19,235 students overall.
Demographically, DORRIS A JONES EL records that 57% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 20% White, 16% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, DORRIS A JONES EL has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting DORRIS A JONES EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Rockwall County (around 29%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DORRIS A JONES EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.4%, the actual is 51.8%, a residual of +4.5 points.
Zooming out to the county, Rockwall County reports that the typical household earns roughly $127,981 per year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Rockwall County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,104 students), of which DORRIS A JONES EL is one.
The closest other public school is OUIDA SPRINGER, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DORRIS A JONES EL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 61.1%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DORRIS A JONES EL has changed only slightly, going from 648 students in 2018 to 636 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 32% to 20% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.
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