MERIDITH-DUNBAR EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY

MERIDITH-DUNBAR EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary schools in TEMPLE, Texas, one of the schools within TEMPLE ISD, with 487 students on its rolls from grade pre-K.

Within TEMPLE ISD, which oversees 17 schools and 9,073 students, MERIDITH-DUNBAR EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MERIDITH-DUNBAR EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 26% Black, 13% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the resource side, On paper, MERIDITH-DUNBAR EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting MERIDITH-DUNBAR EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bell County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Bell County put the typical household earns roughly $68,865 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Bell County's 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students), MERIDITH-DUNBAR EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: WHEATLEY ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION CENTER, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MERIDITH-DUNBAR EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MERIDITH-DUNBAR EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY has fell 5%, going from 514 students in 2018 to 487 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 34% to 26% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 30.6:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 today.

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