GILBERT CUELLAR SR EL

Located at 337 PLEASANT VISTA DR, in DALLAS, Texas, GILBERT CUELLAR SR EL is a mid-sized K-5 school that teaches 715 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within DALLAS ISD. That puts it 38% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

GILBERT CUELLAR SR EL is one of 240 schools operated by DALLAS ISD, a district that serves 140,630 students overall.

On the student-mix side, GILBERT CUELLAR SR EL lists that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 10% Black. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, GILBERT CUELLAR SR EL logs 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. 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), GILBERT CUELLAR SR EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.9%, the actual is 32.4%, a residual of +1.4 points.

In the area at large, 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 the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), GILBERT CUELLAR SR EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: YOUNG WOMEN'S STEAM ACADEMY AT BALCH SPRINGS MIDDL, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, GILBERT CUELLAR SR EL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 33.4%.

GILBERT CUELLAR SR EL operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. GILBERT CUELLAR SR EL's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 722 (now 715). The Black share of enrollment fell from 20% to 10% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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