K B POLK CENTER FOR ACADEMICALLY TALENTED & GIFTED

Located at 6911 VICTORIA AVE, in DALLAS, Texas, K B POLK CENTER FOR ACADEMICALLY TALENTED & GIFTED is a small elementary-level community that caters to 427 students (grades pre-K through 8), one of the schools within DALLAS ISD.

K B POLK CENTER FOR ACADEMICALLY TALENTED & GIFTED is one of 240 schools operated by DALLAS ISD, a district that works with 140,630 students overall.

In terms of who attends, K B POLK CENTER FOR ACADEMICALLY TALENTED & GIFTED records that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest reads as 21% Black, 7% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, K B POLK CENTER FOR ACADEMICALLY TALENTED & GIFTED tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 50.5%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Dallas County) records that 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%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which K B POLK CENTER FOR ACADEMICALLY TALENTED & GIFTED is one.

The closest other public school is HENRY W LONGFELLOW CAREER EXPLORATION ACADEMY, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, K B POLK CENTER FOR ACADEMICALLY TALENTED & GIFTED comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 60.3%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at K B POLK CENTER FOR ACADEMICALLY TALENTED & GIFTED has climbed 23%, going from 348 students in 2018 to 427 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 29% to 21% across the same window.

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