FREDERICK DOUGLASS EL

As a moderately sized primary school in DALLAS, Texas, FREDERICK DOUGLASS EL teaches 453 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by DALLAS ISD.

DALLAS ISD comprises 240 schools with combined enrollment of 140,630 students; FREDERICK DOUGLASS EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, FREDERICK DOUGLASS EL logs that 54% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 40% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, FREDERICK DOUGLASS EL records 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FREDERICK DOUGLASS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.9%, the actual is 31.6%, a residual of -0.3 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Dallas County put 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. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which FREDERICK DOUGLASS EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: E B COMSTOCK MIDDLE, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FREDERICK DOUGLASS EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.8%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FREDERICK DOUGLASS EL has fell 6%, going from 481 students in 2018 to 453 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 58% to 54%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the FREDERICK DOUGLASS 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.