LEILA P COWART EL

Set in DALLAS, Texas, LEILA P COWART EL is a middle-of-the-pack primary school, overseen by DALLAS ISD. It works with 515 students across grades pre-K through 5.

DALLAS ISD comprises 240 schools with combined enrollment of 140,630 students; LEILA P COWART EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, LEILA P COWART EL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

Looking at school resources, LEILA P COWART EL lists 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting LEILA P COWART EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LEILA P COWART EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.7%, the actual is 35.9%, a residual of +3.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which LEILA P COWART EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: ARTURO SALAZAR EL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LEILA P COWART EL. On composite proficiency, LEILA P COWART EL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 37.2%.

LEILA P COWART EL operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LEILA P COWART EL has fell 11%, going from 578 students in 2018 to 515 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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