JOSE 'JOE' MAY EL

JOSE 'JOE' MAY EL, a mid-sized elementary-level community in DALLAS, Texas, run under DALLAS ISD, caters to 746 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 44% above typical.

Within DALLAS ISD, which oversees 240 schools and 140,630 students, JOSE 'JOE' MAY EL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, JOSE 'JOE' MAY EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%). Other groups include 6% Black. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, JOSE 'JOE' MAY EL has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JOSE 'JOE' MAY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.0%, the actual is 20.1%, a residual of -10.9 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Dallas County) logs that median household income runs about $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which JOSE 'JOE' MAY EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: FRANCISCO PANCHO MEDRANO J H, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JOSE 'JOE' MAY EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.8%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JOSE 'JOE' MAY EL has expanded 9%, going from 684 students in 2018 to 746 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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