ELLEN OCHOA STEM ACADEMY AT BEN MILIAM EL

ELLEN OCHOA STEM ACADEMY AT BEN MILIAM EL operates as a middle-of-the-pack primary school in GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, part of GRAND PRAIRIE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 696 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so ELLEN OCHOA STEM ACADEMY AT BEN MILIAM EL sits 34% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 40 schools in GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (27,240 students total), ELLEN OCHOA STEM ACADEMY AT BEN MILIAM EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, ELLEN OCHOA STEM ACADEMY AT BEN MILIAM EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). The remainder is composed of 6% Black, 3% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ELLEN OCHOA STEM ACADEMY AT BEN MILIAM EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.4%; this one delivers 32.5%.

Around the school, Dallas County reports that median household income runs about $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. ELLEN OCHOA STEM ACADEMY AT BEN MILIAM EL is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

ADVANTAGE ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ELLEN OCHOA STEM ACADEMY AT BEN MILIAM EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 46.0%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ELLEN OCHOA STEM ACADEMY AT BEN MILIAM EL has declined 12%, going from 794 students in 2018 to 696 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 78% to 89% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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