NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE EL

As a small K-5 school in DALLAS, Texas, NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE EL caters to 434 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by DALLAS ISD.

DALLAS ISD runs 240 schools in total, collectively educating 140,630 students. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE EL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE EL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). Other groups include 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE EL ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 30.7%; NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE EL posts 45.3%, +14.6 points above that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE EL is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

THELMA ELIZABETH PAGE RICHARDSON EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE EL at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 30.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE EL has shrank 10%, going from 482 students in 2018 to 434 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 90% to 95% over that span.

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