JOHN F PEELER EL

JOHN F PEELER EL, a tight-knit K-5 school in DALLAS, Texas, one of the schools within DALLAS ISD, educates 353 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 32% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

DALLAS ISD runs 240 schools in total, collectively educating 140,630 students. JOHN F PEELER EL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, JOHN F PEELER EL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%); the rest breaks down as 3% Black, 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, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 95% of students at JOHN F PEELER EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, JOHN F PEELER EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.3%, the actual is 39.0%, a residual of +6.7 points.

Around the school, 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%. JOHN F PEELER EL is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

Nearest neighbor: TEXANS CAN ACADEMY - OAK CLIFF, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOHN F PEELER EL. On composite proficiency, JOHN F PEELER EL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 38.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JOHN F PEELER EL has edged up 9%, going from 323 students in 2018 to 353 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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