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If you had an hour of school board time for LOUISE WOLFF KAHN EL, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
533
Elementary
DISTRICT 488 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DALLAS ISD·NCES 481623007570
Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School
610 N FRANKLIN, DALLAS, TX 75211 · (972) 502-1400 · Dallas County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL533 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 75% of Texas public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
501 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 69 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 65 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 12% smaller than its 6th grade class (65).
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School→Raul Quintanilla Sr Middle Steam Academy
Based on published attendance-zone data from DALLAS ISD. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
64.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +28.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
54.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +18.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 28 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 18 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 31.0% | 33.0% | 20.0% | 16.0% |
| Mathematics | 20.0% | 34.0% | 29.0% | 17.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 64.0% | 54.0% |
| 2024-25 | 61.0% | 50.0% |
| 2023-24 | 49.0% | 41.0% |
| 2022-23 | 49.0% | 43.0% |
| 2021-22 | 37.0% | 46.0% |
| 2020-21 | 36.0% | 36.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
45.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.5%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School
Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School's state test result (45.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School this school | 533 | 94.0% | 45.2% |
| Leila P Cowart Elementary School DALLAS | 515 | 94.4% | 40.2% |
| Garcia Elementary School CORPUS CHRISTI | 556 | 93.7% | 35.0% |
| Palo Alto Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 528 | 93.2% | 25.8% |
| Hubbard Elementary School FORT WORTH | 508 | 93.3% | 20.4% |
| Richard J Wilson Elementary School FORT WORTH | 508 | 93.1% | 21.5% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Dallas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.2% | #1,946 of 4,401 | #123 of 421 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #1,384 of 4,466 ▲ 209 | #96 of 429 ▲ 26 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #1,101 of 4,466 ▲ 223 | #79 of 429 ▲ 14 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +13.0pp | #1,063 of 3,998 | #84 of 399 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 533 | #2,198 of 4,938 | #179 of 448 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #2,662 of 4,622 | #248 of 432 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 10.8% | #4,068 of 4,628 | #415 of 433 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.0% | #633 of 4,789 | #128 of 437 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.0% | #2,530 of 2,838 | #252 of 274 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
533
-69 (-11%) vs 2020
-34% since 2000-01, when it was 805
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 16.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 533 | 35 | 15.2:1 | 94% (501) |
| 2023-24 | 536 | 35 | 15.3:1 | 94% (505) |
| 2022-23 | 531 | 35 | 15.2:1 | 93% (494) |
| 2020-21 | 602 | 36 | 16.7:1 | 92% (553) |
| 2017-18 | 555 | 33 | 16.8:1 | 93% (518) |
| 2015-16 | 585 | 39 | 15.0:1 | 95% (553) |
| 2010-11 | 732 | 42 | 17.4:1 | 96% (705) |
| 2000-01 | 805 | 50 | 16.1:1 | 89% (717) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (555 to 533); teachers up 6% (33 to 35).
About Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School
Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School is an elementary school in DALLAS, Texas, and it is part of DALLAS ISD. It reported 533 students in pre-K through 6 in 2024-25.
Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School belongs to DALLAS ISD, a district of 240 schools and 140,630 students.
Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School is 94% Hispanic by enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 2% White and 2% Black. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Dallas County's population at about 41%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School scores 11%.
With 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 15.2:1. It is about the same as the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School, 94% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Dallas County, the average is 77%.
Among Texas public elementary schools, Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School outscored 75%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in Texas with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 33.5%. Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School scores 45.2%.
The school is in Dallas County, where the median household earns about $76,547 a year, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School shares Dallas County with 770 other public schools.
Sunset High School is the nearest public school to Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School, about 0.4 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 602 to 533, an 11% decline. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (15.2:1) than in 2020-21 (16.7:1).
The discussion board for Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School is open to topics like athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Dallas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,621,179
Census ACS
Median income
$76,547
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
771
459,645 students
Quick facts
Related schools
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- Skyline High SchoolHigh · 3,837 students
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- Sunset High SchoolHigh · 2,164 students
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- Woodrow Wilson High SchoolHigh · 1,832 students
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- Bryan Adams H S Leadership AcademyHigh · 2,208 students
- W T White High SchoolHigh · 2,204 students
- Sunset High SchoolHigh · 2,164 students
Nearby schools
- Sunset High School0.4 mi · 2,164
- Rosemont Lower - Chris V Semos Building0.5 mi · 457
- Lida Hooe Elementary School0.7 mi · 310
- Stevens Park Elementary School0.7 mi · 631
- Rosemont Upper0.7 mi · 459
- George Peabody Elementary School0.9 mi · 318
Frequently asked questions
About Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School?
Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School enrolls approximately 533 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School serve?
Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School is approximately 15.2:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School?
At Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School, the student body is approximately 2% White, 94% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Two or more.
Is Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School public or private?
Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by DALLAS ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.