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EBBY HALLIDAY EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About EBBY HALLIDAY EL
Set in DALLAS, Texas, EBBY HALLIDAY EL is a moderately sized K-5 school, one of the schools within DALLAS ISD. It educates 722 students across grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 39% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
EBBY HALLIDAY EL is one of 240 schools operated by DALLAS ISD, a district that educates 140,630 students overall.
On demographics, EBBY HALLIDAY EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (83%). Other groups include 12% Black, 3% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, EBBY HALLIDAY EL has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Dallas County's rate of about 77%.
After controlling for student poverty, EBBY HALLIDAY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.8%, the actual is 24.1%, a residual of -8.7 points.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Dallas County shows median household earnings sit near $76,547, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which EBBY HALLIDAY EL is one.
NANCY MOSELEY EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EBBY HALLIDAY EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.6%.
Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.
Over the past 7-year window. EBBY HALLIDAY EL's enrollment has rose 13% since 2018, when it stood at 638 (now 722). Class-load math has widened: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.
On the community side, members of the EBBY HALLIDAY EL community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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