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JUSTIN F KIMBALL H S
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About JUSTIN F KIMBALL H S
Located at 3606 S WESTMORELAND RD, in DALLAS, Texas, JUSTIN F KIMBALL H S is a moderately sized 9-12 campus that hosts 1,175 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by DALLAS ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so JUSTIN F KIMBALL H S sits 48% bigger than that benchmark.
JUSTIN F KIMBALL H S is one of 240 schools operated by DALLAS ISD, a district that instructs 140,630 students overall.
On the student-mix side, JUSTIN F KIMBALL H S logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 27% Black. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, JUSTIN F KIMBALL H S lists 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting JUSTIN F KIMBALL H S tighter than the state norm the norm. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, JUSTIN F KIMBALL H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.8%, the actual is 27.5%, a residual of -7.3 points.
Zooming out to the county, Dallas County reports that median household earnings sit near $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. JUSTIN F KIMBALL H S is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).
T W BROWNE MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, JUSTIN F KIMBALL H S comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.6%.
The school occupies a high-density site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 19%: 1,454 students in 2018 compared to 1,175 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.
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