KATHERINE STEPHENS EL

KATHERINE STEPHENS EL is an elementary campus of mid-sized scale in ROWLETT, Texas, run under GARLAND ISD, caters to 496 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 76 schools in GARLAND ISD (53,173 students total), KATHERINE STEPHENS EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, KATHERINE STEPHENS EL lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 57%. Beyond that, the school shows 18% Black, 13% White, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting KATHERINE STEPHENS EL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, KATHERINE STEPHENS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.6%, the actual is 32.4%, a residual of -8.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Dallas County shows median household earnings sit near $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. KATHERINE STEPHENS EL is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

The closest other public school is COYLE MIDDLE, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KATHERINE STEPHENS EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 39.8%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. KATHERINE STEPHENS EL's enrollment has ticked down 24% since 2018, when it stood at 655 (now 496). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 43% to 57% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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