NANCY J COCHRAN EL

NANCY J COCHRAN EL is a K-5 school of reasonably sized scale in DALLAS, Texas, part of DALLAS ISD, educateing 455 students in grades pre-K through 5.

NANCY J COCHRAN EL is one of 240 schools operated by DALLAS ISD, a district that serves 140,630 students overall.

On the student-mix side, NANCY J COCHRAN EL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 25% Black. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, NANCY J COCHRAN EL has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 98% 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.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), NANCY J COCHRAN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.1%, the actual is 42.1%, a residual of +11.0 points.

Around the school, Dallas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which NANCY J COCHRAN EL is one.

LIFE SCHOOL MOUNTAIN CREEK is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, NANCY J COCHRAN EL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 14%: 529 students in 2018 compared to 455 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 61% to 71% across the same window.

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