DUNN EL

As a reasonably sized elementary school in ARLINGTON, Texas, DUNN EL teaches 507 students from grades pre-K through 6, part of ARLINGTON ISD.

Within ARLINGTON ISD, which oversees 75 schools and 53,394 students, DUNN EL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, DUNN EL shows that 32% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 30% Hispanic, 28% White, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DUNN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.2%, the actual is 34.4%, a residual of -8.8 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate median household income runs about $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), DUNN EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ARLINGTON COLLEGE AND CAREER H S, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DUNN EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 61.7%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 10%: 561 students in 2018 compared to 507 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 37% to 28% over that span.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.