JUDGE LOUIS A BEDFORD JR LAW ACADEMY

JUDGE LOUIS A BEDFORD JR LAW ACADEMY is one of the tight-knit middle schools in DALLAS, Texas, overseen by DALLAS ISD, with 509 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so JUDGE LOUIS A BEDFORD JR LAW ACADEMY sits 21% below that benchmark.

Within DALLAS ISD, which oversees 240 schools and 140,630 students, JUDGE LOUIS A BEDFORD JR LAW ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, JUDGE LOUIS A BEDFORD JR LAW ACADEMY records that 61% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder consists of 36% Hispanic. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 97% of students at JUDGE LOUIS A BEDFORD JR LAW ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, JUDGE LOUIS A BEDFORD JR LAW ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.3%, the actual is 42.8%, a residual of +11.4 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate median household income runs about $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which JUDGE LOUIS A BEDFORD JR LAW ACADEMY is one.

Nearest neighbor: ADELLE TURNER EL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JUDGE LOUIS A BEDFORD JR LAW ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, JUDGE LOUIS A BEDFORD JR LAW ACADEMY comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.1%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 38%: 819 students in 2018 compared to 509 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 72% to 61% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.