MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE EL

As a mid-tier elementary school in DALLAS, Texas, MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE EL enrolls 538 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by DALLAS ISD.

Within DALLAS ISD, which oversees 240 schools and 140,630 students, MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE EL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE EL records that nearly all students (91%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 4% Black, 3% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.9%; this one delivers 47.3%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Dallas County) records that median household income runs about $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE EL is one campus in the mix.

MOISES E MOLINA H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE EL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 47.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 27%: 742 students in 2018 compared to 538 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

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