ILTEXAS LANCASTER DESOTO H S

As a rural-scale secondary school in DESOTO, Texas, ILTEXAS LANCASTER DESOTO H S hosts 191 students from grades 9 through 12, run under INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF TEXAS (ILTEXAS). That puts it 76% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

Across the 44 schools in INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF TEXAS (ILTEXAS) (25,497 students total), ILTEXAS LANCASTER DESOTO H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, ILTEXAS LANCASTER DESOTO H S logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 59% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 34% Black, 2% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ILTEXAS LANCASTER DESOTO H S tighter than the state norm the norm. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ILTEXAS LANCASTER DESOTO H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.5%, the actual is 39.8%, a residual of +2.2 points.

In the broader 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. ILTEXAS LANCASTER DESOTO H S is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

THE MEADOWS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ILTEXAS LANCASTER DESOTO H S. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ILTEXAS LANCASTER DESOTO H S ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 29.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area. As a public charter, ILTEXAS LANCASTER DESOTO H S runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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