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GLENN C HARDIN INT
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About GLENN C HARDIN INT
GLENN C HARDIN INT, a low-enrollment junior high in DUNCANVILLE, Texas, operated by DUNCANVILLE ISD, works with 508 students, covering grades 5 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 21% smaller than the state mean of about 643.
Across the 17 schools in DUNCANVILLE ISD (11,562 students total), GLENN C HARDIN INT accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, GLENN C HARDIN INT shows that 74% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 22% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, GLENN C HARDIN INT lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.5:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 84% of students at GLENN C HARDIN INT qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, GLENN C HARDIN INT performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.2%, the actual is 28.8%, a residual of -8.4 points.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Dallas County put the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. GLENN C HARDIN INT is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).
MARY E SMITHEY PACE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GLENN C HARDIN INT ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 30.2%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GLENN C HARDIN INT has shrank 25%, going from 674 students in 2018 to 508 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 65% to 74%. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.
On the community side, members of the GLENN C HARDIN INT community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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