FLOYD EL

FLOYD EL is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in BALCH SPRINGS, Texas, operated by MESQUITE ISD, enrolling 552 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within MESQUITE ISD, which oversees 51 schools and 37,930 students, FLOYD EL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, FLOYD EL records that 80% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 14% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 93% of students at FLOYD EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, FLOYD EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.5%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, 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), FLOYD EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is YOUNG WOMEN'S STEAM ACADEMY AT BALCH SPRINGS MIDDL, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, FLOYD EL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 31%: 798 students in 2018 compared to 552 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 7% to 3% across the same window.

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