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H S THOMPSON LEARNING CENTER
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyAbout H S THOMPSON LEARNING CENTER
H S THOMPSON LEARNING CENTER, an average-sized primary school in DALLAS, Texas, run under DALLAS ISD, educates 545 students, covering grades K through 5.
DALLAS ISD comprises 240 schools with combined enrollment of 140,630 students; H S THOMPSON LEARNING CENTER is among them.
Demographically, H S THOMPSON LEARNING CENTER reports that the most-represented group is Black (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 46% Hispanic. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 99% of students are eligible 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.
After controlling for student poverty, H S THOMPSON LEARNING CENTER falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 30.8%; this one comes in at 15.3%, -15.5 points off the demographic line.
In the broader community, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), H S THOMPSON LEARNING CENTER is one campus in the mix.
LINCOLN HUMANITIES/COMMUNICATIONS MAGNET HIGH SCH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around H S THOMPSON LEARNING CENTER. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts H S THOMPSON LEARNING CENTER at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 47.4%.
The campus sits in a downtown setting.
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