DR WRIGHT L LASSITER JR EARLY COLLEGE H S

Located at 701 ELM ST 1ST FLOOR, in DALLAS, Texas, DR WRIGHT L LASSITER JR EARLY COLLEGE H S is a very small secondary school that instructs 293 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by DALLAS ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 63% leaner than the state mean of about 796.

DALLAS ISD comprises 240 schools with combined enrollment of 140,630 students; DR WRIGHT L LASSITER JR EARLY COLLEGE H S is among them.

On demographics, DR WRIGHT L LASSITER JR EARLY COLLEGE H S logs that nearly all students (87%) are Hispanic. The remainder reads as 9% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, DR WRIGHT L LASSITER JR EARLY COLLEGE H S has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting DR WRIGHT L LASSITER JR EARLY COLLEGE H S higher than the state norm the norm. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DR WRIGHT L LASSITER JR EARLY COLLEGE H S sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 36.0%; actual is 79.1%, +43.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Dallas County put the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), DR WRIGHT L LASSITER JR EARLY COLLEGE H S is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PEGASUS CHARTER H S, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DR WRIGHT L LASSITER JR EARLY COLLEGE H S comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 56.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DR WRIGHT L LASSITER JR EARLY COLLEGE H S has grew 30%, going from 226 students in 2018 to 293 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 today.

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