ERVIN C WHITT EL

ERVIN C WHITT EL is a primary school of mid-sized scale in GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, operated by GRAND PRAIRIE ISD, works with 523 students in grades pre-K through 5.

GRAND PRAIRIE ISD comprises 40 schools with combined enrollment of 27,240 students; ERVIN C WHITT EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, ERVIN C WHITT EL logs that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 18% Black, 7% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, ERVIN C WHITT EL records 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 76% of students at ERVIN C WHITT EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ERVIN C WHITT EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.9%, the actual is 44.3%, a residual of +3.4 points.

Around the school, Dallas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), ERVIN C WHITT EL is one campus in the mix.

SAM RAYBURN EL STEAM ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ERVIN C WHITT EL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.1%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ERVIN C WHITT EL has ticked down 19%, going from 649 students in 2018 to 523 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 60% to 70%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the ERVIN C WHITT EL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.