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Does MARCUS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
718
Elementary
DISTRICT 488 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DALLAS ISD·NCES 481623001313
Marcus Leadership Academy
2911 NORTHAVEN RD, DALLAS, TX 75229 · (972) 794-2900 · Dallas County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL718 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 20% of Texas public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-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
16.7:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
707 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 | 61 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 108 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 101 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 106 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 80 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (108) is 35% larger than its 6th grade class (80).
Student demographics
8%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
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
43.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +3.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
42.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +22.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 3 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 22 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 23.0% | 20.0% | 26.0% | 31.0% |
| Mathematics | 14.0% | 28.0% | 26.0% | 32.0% |
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 | 43.0% | 42.0% |
| 2024-25 | 37.0% | 33.0% |
| 2023-24 | 24.0% | 28.0% |
| 2022-23 | 25.0% | 33.0% |
| 2021-22 | 34.0% | 33.0% |
| 2020-21 | 40.0% | 20.0% |
% 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
25.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.6%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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 Marcus Leadership Academy
Marcus Leadership Academy's state test result (25.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marcus Leadership Academy this school | 718 | 98.5% | 25.7% |
| IDEA Palmview Academy MISSION | 705 | 97.9% | 30.3% |
| IDEA Academy DONNA | 744 | 97.3% | 36.1% |
| Moreno Elementary School HOUSTON | 697 | 96.7% | 45.2% |
| Julian T Saldivar Elementary School DALLAS | 755 | 98.8% | 24.6% |
| Augusto Guerra Elementary School ALAMO | 731 | 96.7% | 47.8% |
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 Marcus Leadership Academy ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Dallas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.7% | #4,000 of 4,401 | #371 of 421 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #2,607 of 4,466 ▲ 836 | #222 of 429 ▲ 100 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #3,327 of 4,466 ▲ 409 | #287 of 429 ▲ 55 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +13.5pp | #1,015 of 3,998 | #80 of 399 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 718 | #806 of 4,938 | #57 of 448 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #3,737 of 4,622 | #358 of 432 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 8.1% | #4,180 of 4,628 | #425 of 433 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.5% | #131 of 4,789 | #29 of 437 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.9% | #2,223 of 2,838 | #224 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
718
+81 (+13%) vs 2020
+27% since 1990-91, when it was 565
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 718 | 43 | 16.7:1 | 98% (707) |
| 2023-24 | 637 | 44 | 14.5:1 | 98% (624) |
| 2022-23 | 644 | 42 | 15.3:1 | 98% (630) |
| 2020-21 | 637 | 42 | 15.2:1 | 97% (617) |
| 2017-18 | 780 | 54.3 | 14.4:1 | 97% (759) |
| 2015-16 | 938 | 61 | 15.4:1 | 97% (907) |
| 2010-11 | 906 | 54 | 16.8:1 | 99% (893) |
| 2000-01 | 1,015 | 56 | 18.1:1 | 84% (850) |
| 1990-91 | 565 | 41 | 13.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Marcus Leadership Academy.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (780 to 718); teachers down 21% (54.3 to 43).
About Marcus Leadership Academy
Marcus Leadership Academy is a public elementary school run by DALLAS ISD in DALLAS, Texas. The school runs pre-K through 6 and enrolls 718 students. Elementary schools in Texas have about 519 students on average; enrollment here is 38% higher.
DALLAS ISD is the district for Marcus Leadership Academy. It has 240 schools and 140,630 students.
Hispanic students are 96% of those enrolled at Marcus Leadership Academy. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Dallas County's population at about 41%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 8, compared with 70 nationally.
Teacher count: 43 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 16.7:1. Across elementary schools in Texas, the average ratio is 15.1:1. Roughly 98% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Dallas County is 77%.
Among Texas public elementary schools, Marcus Leadership Academy outscored 20%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 31.6% for Marcus Leadership Academy. The school posts 25.7%, 5.9 points below the prediction.
In the surrounding county, Dallas County, the median household earns about $76,547 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Dallas County has 771 public schools with about 459,645 students, including Marcus Leadership Academy.
Stark Elementary School is about 0.9 miles away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Marcus Leadership Academy's average proficiency of 25.7% compares with 41.3% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Marcus Leadership Academy has an NCES locale of City: Large.
The school grew from 637 students in 2020-21 to 718 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 15.2:1 to 16.7:1.
On allk12, people connected to Marcus Leadership Academy can post about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
Other schools in DALLAS ISD
- Skyline High SchoolHigh · 3,837 students
- Bryan Adams H S Leadership AcademyHigh · 2,208 students
- W T White High SchoolHigh · 2,204 students
- Sunset High SchoolHigh · 2,164 students
- Moises E Molina High SchoolHigh · 2,006 students
- Woodrow Wilson High SchoolHigh · 1,832 students
Other schools in DALLAS
- Skyline High SchoolHigh · 3,837 students
- Lake Highlands High SchoolHigh · 2,972 students
- Oak Cliff Faith Family AcademyCombined · 2,670 students
- 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
- Stark Elementary School0.9 mi · 626
- Everette Lee Degolyer Elementary School1.1 mi · 413
- F P Caillet Elementary School1.1 mi · 552
- Chapel Hill Preparatory-A Personalized Lrning School1.3 mi · 404
- Farmers Branch Elementary School1.7 mi · 468
- Field Middle School1.8 mi · 864
Frequently asked questions
About Marcus Leadership AcademyHow many students attend Marcus Leadership Academy?
Marcus Leadership Academy enrolls approximately 718 students in grades PK-06.
Is Marcus Leadership Academy an elementary, middle, or high school?
Marcus Leadership Academy is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many students per teacher at Marcus Leadership Academy?
Approximately 16.7:1 students per teacher at Marcus Leadership Academy.
What is the student diversity at Marcus Leadership Academy?
Student demographics at Marcus Leadership Academy are roughly 1% White, 96% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Marcus Leadership Academy public or private?
Marcus Leadership Academy 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.