DYESS EL

DYESS EL, a mid-tier elementary campus in ABILENE, Texas, one of the schools within ABILENE ISD, works with 621 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Within ABILENE ISD, which oversees 26 schools and 14,536 students, DYESS EL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, DYESS EL records that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 34% Hispanic, 12% Black, 10% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 67% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, DYESS EL has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 66% of students at DYESS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Taylor County's rate of about 53%.

After controlling for student poverty, DYESS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.0%, the actual is 48.5%, a residual of +3.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Taylor County indicate median household income runs about $67,139, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Taylor County runs 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,159 students), of which DYESS EL is one.

BASSETTI EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DYESS EL. On composite proficiency, DYESS EL comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 38.0%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DYESS EL has climbed 13%, going from 549 students in 2018 to 621 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 47% to 41%.

On allk12, the feed for DYESS EL typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.