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MOHAWK EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MOHAWK EL
Set in RICHARDSON, Texas, MOHAWK EL is a reasonably sized elementary campus, run under RICHARDSON ISD. It instructs 492 students across grades K through 6.
RICHARDSON ISD runs 55 schools in total, collectively educating 38,526 students. MOHAWK EL is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, MOHAWK EL records that White students make up the majority at 76%. The remainder comes out to 13% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 9% of students at MOHAWK EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, MOHAWK EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.9%, the actual is 80.3%, a residual of +10.5 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Dallas County put median household earnings sit near $76,547, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. MOHAWK EL is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).
PEARCE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MOHAWK EL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 59.6%.
The school occupies a metropolitan site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MOHAWK EL has increased 8%, going from 455 students in 2018 to 492 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 84% to 76% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.
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