MOSS EL

MOSS EL is a K-5 school of small scale in MESQUITE, Texas, one of the schools within MESQUITE ISD, instructing 337 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 35% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

MESQUITE ISD runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 37,930 students. MOSS EL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, MOSS EL logs that 43% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 33% Black, 16% White, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, MOSS EL logs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting MOSS EL tighter 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. That share is noticeably above Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MOSS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.4%, the actual is 33.5%, a residual of -2.9 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Dallas County put median household income runs about $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which MOSS EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: MCWHORTER EL, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MOSS EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 40.3%.

MOSS EL operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 22%: 434 students in 2018 compared to 337 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 37% to 43% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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