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ELADIO R MARTINEZ LEARNING CENTER
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 16 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ELADIO R MARTINEZ LEARNING CENTER
ELADIO R MARTINEZ LEARNING CENTER operates as a middle-of-the-pack primary school in DALLAS, Texas, one of the schools within DALLAS ISD. Current enrollment sits at 547 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.
DALLAS ISD comprises 240 schools with combined enrollment of 140,630 students; ELADIO R MARTINEZ LEARNING CENTER is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, ELADIO R MARTINEZ LEARNING CENTER logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 28% Black. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Dallas County's rate of about 77%.
After controlling for student poverty, ELADIO R MARTINEZ LEARNING CENTER sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.5%; this one delivers 34.8%.
Zooming out to the county, Dallas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which ELADIO R MARTINEZ LEARNING CENTER is one.
Nearest neighbor: GABE P ALLEN NEW TECH ACADEMY, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ELADIO R MARTINEZ LEARNING CENTER comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 29.1%.
The campus sits in a downtown setting.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 3%: 562 students in 2018 compared to 547 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment fell from 90% to 69% over that span.
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