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MOISES E MOLINA H S
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Located at 2355 DUNCANVILLE RD, in DALLAS, Texas, MOISES E MOLINA H S is a heavily attended four-year high school that caters to 2,006 students (grades 9 through 12), part of DALLAS ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so MOISES E MOLINA H S sits 152% larger than that benchmark.
MOISES E MOLINA H S is one of 240 schools operated by DALLAS ISD, a district that educates 140,630 students overall.
Demographically, MOISES E MOLINA H S lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%); the rest comes out to 4% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.
On the resource side, MOISES E MOLINA H S shows 125 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MOISES E MOLINA H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.3%.
Zooming out to the county, Dallas County reports that median household earnings sit near $76,547, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. MOISES E MOLINA H S is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).
Nearest neighbor: LIFE SCHOOL MOUNTAIN CREEK, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MOISES E MOLINA H S. On composite proficiency, MOISES E MOLINA H S comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.4%.
The school occupies an urban site.
Looking at the recent track record. MOISES E MOLINA H S's enrollment has fell 10% since 2018, when it stood at 2,221 (now 2,006).
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