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What's one thing MARTHA TURNER REILLY EL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
547
Elementary
DISTRICT 488 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DALLAS ISD·NCES 481623001336
Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School
11230 LIPPITT AVE, DALLAS, TX 75218 · (972) 749-7800 · Dallas County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL547 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 67% 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.
- B+Beats 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
15.5:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
413 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 | 83 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 82 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (82) is 19% larger than its 5th grade class (69).
Student demographics
44%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
Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School→Robert T Hill Middle School→Bryan Adams H S Leadership 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
65.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +18.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
43.0%
TX avg 45.3% . -4.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 18 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 38.0% | 27.0% | 21.0% | 14.0% |
| Mathematics | 19.0% | 24.0% | 28.0% | 29.0% |
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 | 65.0% | 43.0% |
| 2024-25 | 62.0% | 49.0% |
| 2023-24 | 56.0% | 47.0% |
| 2022-23 | 43.0% | 44.0% |
| 2021-22 | 59.0% | 54.0% |
| 2020-21 | 47.0% | 47.0% |
% 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
46.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.5%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School
Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School's state test result (46.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School this school | 547 | 75.5% | 46.1% |
| Harmony Science Academy - Odessa ODESSA | 541 | 73.4% | 48.7% |
| L A Gililland Elementary School FORT WORTH | 503 | 75.0% | 34.0% |
| Northern Hills Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 501 | 74.5% | 32.0% |
| Timberline Elementary School GRAPEVINE | 593 | 78.4% | 32.7% |
| Jack Taylor Elementary School BURLESON | 536 | 73.7% | 34.3% |
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 Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Dallas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.1% | #1,836 of 4,401 | #113 of 421 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #2,492 of 4,466 ▼ 801 | #207 of 429 ▼ 80 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #1,011 of 4,466 ▲ 238 | #72 of 429 ▲ 12 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +10.5pp | #1,370 of 3,998 | #103 of 399 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 547 | #2,062 of 4,938 | #161 of 448 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #2,880 of 4,622 | #266 of 432 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.3% | #2,827 of 4,628 | #225 of 433 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.5% | #2,245 of 4,789 | #318 of 437 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.9% | #2,400 of 2,838 | #242 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
547
+55 (+11%) vs 2020
-16% since 1990-91, when it was 649
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 547 | 35.3 | 15.5:1 | 76% (413) |
| 2023-24 | 477 | 32.2 | 14.8:1 | 75% (358) |
| 2022-23 | 494 | 31.8 | 15.5:1 | 73% (361) |
| 2020-21 | 492 | 36 | 13.7:1 | 77% (378) |
| 2017-18 | 581 | 36.3 | 16.0:1 | 79% (460) |
| 2015-16 | 560 | 39 | 14.4:1 | 82% (460) |
| 2010-11 | 484 | 32 | 15.1:1 | 91% (442) |
| 2000-01 | 1,098 | 61 | 18.0:1 | 67% (739) |
| 1990-91 | 649 | 35 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (581 to 547); teachers down 3% (36.3 to 35.3).
About Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School
Federal records list Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School as an elementary school in DALLAS, Texas. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 547 students on the rolls.
Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School belongs to DALLAS ISD, a district of 240 schools and 140,630 students.
The share of Hispanic students at Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School is 73%, a majority. It is also 15% White, 8% Black, and 4% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Dallas County is roughly 41% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 44%.
Staffing at Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School comes to 35.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.5:1. The ratio is within a point of the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. On the income side, 76% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Dallas County average a similar 77%.
Among Texas public elementary schools, Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School outscored 67%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Texas schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 46.1% and a predicted 41.5%.
In the surrounding county, Dallas County, the median household earns about $76,547 a year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Dallas County has 771 public schools with about 459,645 students, including Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School.
Of the public schools around it, Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School is closest to Robert T Hill Middle School, about 0.9 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School is 4th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Federal data place Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 492 students in 2020-21, enrollment increased to 547 by 2024-25. The number of students per teacher increased from 13.7 to 15.5 over 4 years.
This page is set up for the Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. 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
- Robert T Hill Middle School0.9 mi · 762
- Casa View Elementary School1.0 mi · 530
- Personalized Learning Academy at Highland Meadows1.1 mi · 676
- Reinhardt Elementary School1.3 mi · 431
- Victor H Hexter Elementary School1.3 mi · 481
- Charles A Gill Elementary School1.7 mi · 630
Frequently asked questions
About Martha Turner Reilly Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School?
Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School enrolls approximately 547 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School serve?
Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School?
Approximately 15.5:1 students per teacher at Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School?
Student demographics at Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School are roughly 15% White, 73% Hispanic, 8% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School in?
Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School is part of DALLAS ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.