LAKERIDGE EL

LAKERIDGE EL operates as a moderately sized elementary school in CEDAR HILL, Texas, operated by CEDAR HILL ISD. Current enrollment sits at 466 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Within CEDAR HILL ISD, which oversees 12 schools and 6,253 students, LAKERIDGE EL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, LAKERIDGE EL lists that Black students make up the majority at 62%. The remainder reads as 23% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% White, 2% Asian. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LAKERIDGE EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 47.5%; LAKERIDGE EL posts 32.2%, -15.3 points below that line.

In the area at large, Dallas County reports 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 LAKERIDGE EL is one.

CEDAR HILL COLLEGIATE ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LAKERIDGE EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LAKERIDGE EL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 58.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LAKERIDGE EL has expanded 42%, going from 328 students in 2018 to 466 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 12% to 4% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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