DOVER EL

As a medium-sized primary school in RICHARDSON, Texas, DOVER EL enrolls 698 students from grades pre-K through 6, overseen by RICHARDSON ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so DOVER EL sits 34% above that benchmark.

RICHARDSON ISD comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 38,526 students; DOVER EL is among them.

On demographics, DOVER EL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%); the rest reads as 7% Black, 3% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, DOVER EL has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DOVER EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.7%; this one delivers 28.8%.

In the broader community, Dallas County reports that median household income runs about $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which DOVER EL is one.

CAROLYN G BUKHAIR EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DOVER EL. On composite proficiency, DOVER EL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.6%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DOVER EL has ticked up 16%, going from 600 students in 2018 to 698 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 82% to 88% across the same window.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.