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Enrollment
509
Middle
DISTRICT 551 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DALLAS ISD·NCES 481623001211
Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy
1303 REYNOLDSTON LN, DALLAS, TX 75232 · (972) 794-6400 · Dallas County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL509 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 50% of Texas public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
496 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 154 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 172 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 183 | 36% |
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy→David W Carter High School
Feeds from
Based on published attendance-zone data from DALLAS ISD. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
46.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +3.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
51.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +0.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 3 points since 2020, while math scores have held steady.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 18.0% | 28.0% | 24.0% | 30.0% |
| Mathematics | 12.0% | 39.0% | 21.0% | 28.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 46.0% | 51.0% |
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 25.0% |
| 2023-24 | 42.0% | 39.0% |
| 2022-23 | 32.0% | 46.0% |
| 2021-22 | 35.0% | 34.0% |
| 2020-21 | 43.0% | 51.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
37.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.1%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy
Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy's state test result (37.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy this school | 509 | 97.4% | 37.0% |
| Billy Earl Dade Middle School DALLAS | 599 | 99.2% | 28.9% |
| Forest Brook Middle School HOUSTON | 546 | 98.7% | 32.6% |
| Thomas Middle School HOUSTON | 391 | 98.0% | 30.8% |
| Attucks Middle School HOUSTON | 392 | 97.2% | 40.9% |
| Fleming Middle School HOUSTON | 319 | 98.1% | 30.0% |
Matched among Texas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Dallas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #1,086 of 1,635 | #53 of 118 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #522 of 1,670 ▲ 931 | #29 of 123 ▲ 79 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #1,214 of 1,670 ▲ 164 | #63 of 123 ▲ 16 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +9.5pp | #811 of 1,570 | #43 of 121 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 509 | #1,080 of 1,749 | #82 of 126 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #907 of 1,542 | #70 of 123 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.0% | #896 of 1,543 | #56 of 123 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.4% | #52 of 1,648 | #14 of 121 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -37.9% | #61 of 942 | #11 of 80 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
509
-180 (-26%) vs 2020
-42% since 1990-91, when it was 884
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 12.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 509 | 33.5 | 15.2:1 | 97% (496) |
| 2023-24 | 522 | 52.3 | 10.0:1 | 96% (503) |
| 2022-23 | 559 | 51.7 | 10.8:1 | 97% (544) |
| 2020-21 | 689 | 54 | 12.8:1 | 98% (675) |
| 2017-18 | 819 | 65.9 | 12.4:1 | 81% (661) |
| 2015-16 | 714 | 55 | 13.0:1 | 91% (647) |
| 2010-11 | 882 | 64 | 13.8:1 | 80% (710) |
| 2000-01 | 904 | 66 | 13.7:1 | 38% (345) |
| 1990-91 | 884 | 64 | 13.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy.
Since 2017-18: students down 38% (819 to 509); teachers down 49% (65.9 to 33.5).
About Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy
Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a middle-grades school in DALLAS, Texas. A federal count lists 509 students at the school, in grades 6 through 8. An average school in this group (middle schools in Texas) has about 643 students.
Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy is a school in DALLAS ISD. The district has 240 schools and 140,630 students.
At 61%, Black students outnumber all other groups at Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy combined. After that, the student body is 36% Hispanic. Among all residents of Dallas County, the Black share is about 22%. By the diversity index, Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy comes in at 50%.
Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy's 33.5 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 15.2:1. That ratio is over the 14.4:1 average for middle schools in Texas. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 97%. The gap from the 77% average for public schools in Dallas County is 20 points.
allk12 grades Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy a B-. The grade compares the school only with Texas public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
On BeatsExpectations, Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy is 5.0 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Texas schools.
In Dallas County (population about 2,621,179), median household income is about $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 771 public schools operate in Dallas County, serving about 459,645 students.
Adelle Turner Elementary School is located about 0.2 miles from Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The school's 37.0% average proficiency ranks 4th among 9 nearby schools.
NCES assigns Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 509, 26% below the 689 of 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 15.2 students per teacher, compared with 12.8 in 2020-21.
The discussion area below is open to posts about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Dallas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,621,179
Census ACS
Median income
$76,547
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
771
459,645 students
Quick facts
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Nearby schools
- Adelle Turner Elementary School0.2 mi · 258
- Mark Twain School for the Talented and Gifted0.7 mi · 244
- T G Terry Elementary School1.1 mi · 352
- John W Carpenter Elementary School1.4 mi · 208
- Uplift Wisdom Prep High School1.4 mi · 351
- Wisdom Prep Middle School1.4 mi · 493
Frequently asked questions
About Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law AcademyHow many students attend Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy?
Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy enrolls approximately 509 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy serve?
Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy?
Approximately 15.2:1 students per teacher at Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy.
How diverse is Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy?
Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy reports a student body of 2% White, 36% Hispanic, 61% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy?
Judge Louis A Bedford Jr Law Academy is overseen by DALLAS ISD in Dallas County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.