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Enrollment
443
Elementary
DISTRICT 488 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DALLAS ISD·NCES 481623001268
Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff
2120 KEATS DR, DALLAS, TX 75211 · (972) 794-5400 · Dallas County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL443 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 55% of Texas public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
424 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 62 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 66 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 7% larger than its 5th grade class (56).
Student demographics
6%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
48.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +0.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
47.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +13.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores have held steady since 2020, while math scores are up about 13 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 22.0% | 26.0% | 26.0% | 26.0% |
| Mathematics | 18.0% | 29.0% | 21.0% | 32.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 48.0% | 47.0% |
| 2024-25 | 50.0% | 47.0% |
| 2023-24 | 47.0% | 50.0% |
| 2022-23 | 45.0% | 55.0% |
| 2021-22 | 31.0% | 45.0% |
| 2020-21 | 48.0% | 34.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
41.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.8%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff
Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff's state test result (41.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff this school | 443 | 95.7% | 41.6% |
| Douglass Elementary School EL PASO | 451 | 95.8% | 25.6% |
| Eloy Garza Salazar Elementary School DONNA | 446 | 95.1% | 35.9% |
| Alvarez Elementary School MCALLEN | 435 | 96.8% | 43.9% |
| Zavala Elementary School CORPUS CHRISTI | 433 | 94.9% | 31.6% |
| Eliot Elementary School HOUSTON | 464 | 95.5% | 49.1% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Dallas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.6% | #2,377 of 4,401 | #164 of 421 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #2,033 of 4,466 ▼ 122 | #157 of 429 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #2,734 of 4,466 ▼ 292 | #201 of 429 ▼ 21 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.5pp | #888 of 3,998 | #120 of 399 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 443 | #3,085 of 4,938 | #288 of 448 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #3,145 of 4,622 | #296 of 432 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 6.2% | #4,272 of 4,628 | #428 of 433 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.7% | #415 of 4,789 | #94 of 437 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.1% | #1,850 of 2,838 | #186 of 274 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
443
+16 (+4%) vs 2020
-51% since 1990-91, when it was 898
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 14.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 443 | 28 | 15.8:1 | 96% (424) |
| 2023-24 | 424 | 32 | 13.3:1 | 97% (410) |
| 2022-23 | 427 | 29 | 14.7:1 | 97% (413) |
| 2020-21 | 427 | 30 | 14.2:1 | 95% (404) |
| 2017-18 | 504 | 33 | 15.3:1 | 92% (462) |
| 2015-16 | 536 | 34 | 15.8:1 | 97% (519) |
| 2010-11 | 615 | 40 | 15.4:1 | 98% (601) |
| 2000-01 | 747 | 37 | 20.2:1 | 85% (636) |
| 1990-91 | 898 | 54 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (504 to 443); teachers down 15% (33 to 28).
About Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff
Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff is an elementary school located in DALLAS, Texas, in Dallas County. The school serves 443 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
The district for Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff is DALLAS ISD, with 240 schools and 140,630 students.
Hispanic students make up 97% of enrollment at Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff. That compares with about 41% Hispanic among all Dallas County residents. Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff's diversity index is 6%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teachers at Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff total 28 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 15.8:1. That is 0.7 students per teacher above the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 96%. The average for public schools in Dallas County is 77%.
Measured against Texas public elementary schools, Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff receives a B. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
In Texas, Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 41.6% actual against a predicted 32.8%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Dallas County, the median household income is $76,547, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff is one of 771 public schools in the county.
The shortest distance from Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff to another public school is about 0.8 miles, to L O Donald Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff comes in 3rd of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff is City: Large.
The school enrolled 443 students in 2024-25, 16 more than the 427 it had in 2020-21. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 14.2:1; by 2024-25 it was 15.8:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Dallas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,621,179
Census ACS
Median income
$76,547
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
771
459,645 students
Quick facts
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Nearby schools
- L O Donald Elementary School0.8 mi · 324
- L V Stockard Middle School0.8 mi · 728
- Leila P Cowart Elementary School0.8 mi · 515
- Golden Rule Charter School1.1 mi · 490
- Arturo Salazar Elementary School1.1 mi · 424
- Zan Wesley Holmes Jr Middle School1.1 mi · 570
Frequently asked questions
About Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak CliffWhat is the total enrollment at Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff?
Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff enrolls approximately 443 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff serve?
Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff?
Approximately 15.8:1 students per teacher at Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff?
At Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff, the student body is approximately 2% White, 97% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Two or more.
Is Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff public or private?
Hall Personalized Learning Academy at Oak Cliff is a public K-12 school, overseen by DALLAS ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.