DR FREDERICK DOUGLASS TODD SR MIDDLE

DR FREDERICK DOUGLASS TODD SR MIDDLE, a compact middle school in DALLAS, Texas, part of DALLAS ISD, instructs 427 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so DR FREDERICK DOUGLASS TODD SR MIDDLE sits 34% below that benchmark.

Within DALLAS ISD, which oversees 240 schools and 140,630 students, DR FREDERICK DOUGLASS TODD SR MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

On demographics, DR FREDERICK DOUGLASS TODD SR MIDDLE lists that 48% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 45% Hispanic, 2% Asian, 2% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DR FREDERICK DOUGLASS TODD SR MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.9%, the actual is 23.7%, a residual of -7.2 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Dallas County put median household earnings sit near $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. DR FREDERICK DOUGLASS TODD SR MIDDLE is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

The closest other public school is HARRY STONE MONTESSORI ACADEMY, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DR FREDERICK DOUGLASS TODD SR MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, DR FREDERICK DOUGLASS TODD SR MIDDLE comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DR FREDERICK DOUGLASS TODD SR MIDDLE has showed little movement, going from 417 students in 2018 to 427 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 73% to 48% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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