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FELIX G BOTELLO PERSONALIZED LEARNING EL
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FELIX G BOTELLO PERSONALIZED LEARNING EL is a K-5 school of medium-sized scale in DALLAS, Texas, part of DALLAS ISD, teacheing 581 students in grades pre-K through 5.
FELIX G BOTELLO PERSONALIZED LEARNING EL is one of 240 schools operated by DALLAS ISD, a district that teaches 140,630 students overall.
Looking at the student body, FELIX G BOTELLO PERSONALIZED LEARNING EL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%). Beyond that, the school logs 4% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FELIX G BOTELLO PERSONALIZED LEARNING EL ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 32.5%; FELIX G BOTELLO PERSONALIZED LEARNING EL posts 50.6%, +18.1 points above that line.
Across the wider county, Dallas County reports that median household income runs about $76,547, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), FELIX G BOTELLO PERSONALIZED LEARNING EL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: W H ADAMSON H S, around 0.3 miles off. 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), FELIX G BOTELLO PERSONALIZED LEARNING EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 73.5%.
The campus sits in a city-core setting.
Five-year trend. FELIX G BOTELLO PERSONALIZED LEARNING EL's enrollment has expanded 4% since 2018, when it stood at 559 (now 581).
Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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