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DORRIS A JONES EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
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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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