DR DON WOOLLEY MIDDLE

Set in MESQUITE, Texas, DR DON WOOLLEY MIDDLE is an expansive middle-grades school, one of the schools within MESQUITE ISD. It hosts 1,037 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so DR DON WOOLLEY MIDDLE sits 61% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 51 schools in MESQUITE ISD (37,930 students total), DR DON WOOLLEY MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, DR DON WOOLLEY MIDDLE reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. Other groups include 23% Black, 7% White. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting DR DON WOOLLEY MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, DR DON WOOLLEY MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.2%; this one delivers 33.7%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Dallas County) records that the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 DR DON WOOLLEY MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: ACHZIGER EL, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DR DON WOOLLEY MIDDLE comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.3%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

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