DOVE EL

Set in GRAPEVINE, Texas, DOVE EL is a compact primary school, run under GRAPEVINE-COLLEYVILLE ISD. It educates 411 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 21% below the state mean of about 519.

GRAPEVINE-COLLEYVILLE ISD comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 13,541 students; DOVE EL is among them.

On demographics, DOVE EL logs that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 14% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Tarrant County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting DOVE EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

After controlling for student poverty, DOVE EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.8%; this one delivers 40.7%.

In the broader community, census data for Tarrant County shows the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which DOVE EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: GRAPEVINE MIDDLE, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DOVE EL comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.7%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 17%: 494 students in 2018 compared to 411 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 54% to 45% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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