ILTEXAS LANCASTER EL

ILTEXAS LANCASTER EL, a moderately sized elementary-level community in LANCASTER, Texas, part of INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF TEXAS (ILTEXAS), educates 737 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 42% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

ILTEXAS LANCASTER EL is one of 44 schools operated by INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF TEXAS (ILTEXAS), a district that instructs 25,497 students overall.

Demographically, ILTEXAS LANCASTER EL logs that 51% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 41% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, ILTEXAS LANCASTER EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 36.9%; actual is 15.2%, a gap of -21.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, Dallas County reports that median household earnings sit near $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), ILTEXAS LANCASTER EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ILTEXAS LANCASTER MIDDLE, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ILTEXAS LANCASTER EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ILTEXAS LANCASTER EL at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 30.6%.

The school occupies a residential site. ILTEXAS LANCASTER EL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ILTEXAS LANCASTER EL has edged down 17%, going from 885 students in 2018 to 737 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 63% to 41%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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