EDUARDO MATA MONTESSORI SCHOOL

EDUARDO MATA MONTESSORI SCHOOL, a mid-sized K-5 school in DALLAS, Texas, run under DALLAS ISD, educates 720 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 39% bigger than typical.

EDUARDO MATA MONTESSORI SCHOOL is one of 240 schools operated by DALLAS ISD, a district that caters to 140,630 students overall.

On the student-mix side, EDUARDO MATA MONTESSORI SCHOOL reports that 73% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 17% White, 6% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the resource side, On paper, EDUARDO MATA MONTESSORI SCHOOL has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 67% of students at EDUARDO MATA MONTESSORI SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, EDUARDO MATA MONTESSORI SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.8%, the actual is 39.0%, a residual of -5.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), EDUARDO MATA MONTESSORI SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

EAST GRAND PREPARATORY ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, EDUARDO MATA MONTESSORI SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.4%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EDUARDO MATA MONTESSORI SCHOOL has ticked up 33%, going from 542 students in 2018 to 720 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 25% to 17%.

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