NATHAN ADAMS EL

NATHAN ADAMS EL operates as a modestly sized elementary school in DALLAS, Texas, part of DALLAS ISD. Current enrollment sits at 435 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

Within DALLAS ISD, which oversees 240 schools and 140,630 students, NATHAN ADAMS EL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, NATHAN ADAMS EL logs that 80% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 14% Black, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, NATHAN ADAMS EL shows 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.5:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 95% 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.

With demographic context factored in, NATHAN ADAMS EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.2%; this one delivers 39.9%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which NATHAN ADAMS EL is one.

The closest other public school is W T WHITE H S, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NATHAN ADAMS EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 45.7%.

NATHAN ADAMS EL operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. NATHAN ADAMS EL's enrollment has declined 14% since 2018, when it stood at 506 (now 435). Class-load math has loosened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

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