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JESUS MOROLES EXPRESSIVE ARTS VANGUARD
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 24 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 25 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About JESUS MOROLES EXPRESSIVE ARTS VANGUARD
JESUS MOROLES EXPRESSIVE ARTS VANGUARD is one of the mid-tier elementary-level communitys in DALLAS, Texas, overseen by DALLAS ISD, with 633 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so JESUS MOROLES EXPRESSIVE ARTS VANGUARD sits 22% bigger than that benchmark.
JESUS MOROLES EXPRESSIVE ARTS VANGUARD is one of 240 schools operated by DALLAS ISD, a district that hosts 140,630 students overall.
Demographically, JESUS MOROLES EXPRESSIVE ARTS VANGUARD shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 76% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 11% Black, 10% White. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, JESUS MOROLES EXPRESSIVE ARTS VANGUARD records 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, JESUS MOROLES EXPRESSIVE ARTS VANGUARD performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.9%, the actual is 47.6%, a residual of +7.7 points.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Dallas County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which JESUS MOROLES EXPRESSIVE ARTS VANGUARD is one.
Nearest neighbor: LORENZO DE ZAVALA EL, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, JESUS MOROLES EXPRESSIVE ARTS VANGUARD comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 46.5%.
The school occupies a downtown site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 12%: 567 students in 2018 compared to 633 in 2025. The White share of enrollment rose from 3% to 10% over that span.
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