INNOVATION DESIGN ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY

INNOVATION DESIGN ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY is a micro-enrollment 9-12 campus in DALLAS, Texas, overseen by DALLAS ISD. The school hosts 149 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so INNOVATION DESIGN ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY sits 81% leaner than that benchmark.

INNOVATION DESIGN ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY is one of 240 schools operated by DALLAS ISD, a district that enrolls 140,630 students overall.

On demographics, INNOVATION DESIGN ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 66%; the rest reads as 25% Black, 6% White. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, INNOVATION DESIGN ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.7%, the actual is 40.9%, a residual of +4.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Dallas County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), INNOVATION DESIGN ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: UPLIFT ATLAS PREP PS, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, INNOVATION DESIGN ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at INNOVATION DESIGN ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY has ticked down 43%, going from 263 students in 2018 to 149 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 31% to 25% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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