MEDLOCK YOUTH VILLAGE

Located at 1508 E LANGDON RD, in DALLAS, Texas, MEDLOCK YOUTH VILLAGE is an one-room-style senior high that works with 88 students (grades 6 through 12), run under ACADEMY FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 89% smaller than typical.

Across the 4 schools in ACADEMY FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE (280 students total), MEDLOCK YOUTH VILLAGE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, MEDLOCK YOUTH VILLAGE lists that Black students make up the majority at 68%. Other groups include 28% Hispanic, 2% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 6.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is north of typical.

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 the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which MEDLOCK YOUTH VILLAGE is one.

WILMER-HUTCHINS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an outer-ring site. MEDLOCK YOUTH VILLAGE is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MEDLOCK YOUTH VILLAGE has fell 30%, going from 125 students in 2018 to 88 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share grew from 60% to 68%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 8.3:1 in 2018 to 6.5:1 today.

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