FLORENCE EL

Set in MESQUITE, Texas, FLORENCE EL is a medium-sized primary school, part of MESQUITE ISD. It hosts 509 students across grades pre-K through 5.

MESQUITE ISD comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 37,930 students; FLORENCE EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, FLORENCE EL reports that 73% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 15% Black, 7% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.9:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, FLORENCE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.4%, the actual is 31.9%, a residual of -5.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Dallas County reports that median household income runs about $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), FLORENCE EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: VANSTON MIDDLE, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FLORENCE EL. On composite proficiency, FLORENCE EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.6%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 22%: 654 students in 2018 compared to 509 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 62% to 73% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.