DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI AT IDA B WELLS ACADEMY

DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI AT IDA B WELLS ACADEMY is a primary school of compact scale in DALLAS, Texas, one of the schools within DALLAS ISD, caters to 341 students in grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 34% leaner than typical.

DALLAS ISD comprises 240 schools with combined enrollment of 140,630 students; DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI AT IDA B WELLS ACADEMY is among them.

Looking at the student body, DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI AT IDA B WELLS ACADEMY shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 25% Black, 14% White, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI AT IDA B WELLS ACADEMY has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI AT IDA B WELLS ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.2%; this one delivers 39.8%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Dallas County put the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI AT IDA B WELLS ACADEMY is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

Nearest neighbor: PEGASUS CHARTER H S, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI AT IDA B WELLS ACADEMY comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 68.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

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