FRANK D MOATES EL

As a mid-sized elementary campus in GLENN HEIGHTS, Texas, FRANK D MOATES EL works with 468 students from grades 3 through 5, run under DESOTO ISD.

Across the 11 schools in DESOTO ISD (5,708 students total), FRANK D MOATES EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, FRANK D MOATES EL logs that the most-represented group is Black (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 38% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, FRANK D MOATES EL has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

With demographic context factored in, FRANK D MOATES EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 47.8%; this one comes in at 22.4%, -25.4 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, Dallas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which FRANK D MOATES EL is one.

AMBER TERRACE EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FRANK D MOATES EL at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 38.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 39%: 768 students in 2018 compared to 468 in 2025.

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