NORMA DORSEY EL

Located at 6200 DEXHAM RD, in ROWLETT, Texas, NORMA DORSEY EL is an average-sized elementary campus that enrolls 571 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by GARLAND ISD.

GARLAND ISD runs 76 schools in total, collectively educating 53,173 students. NORMA DORSEY EL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, NORMA DORSEY EL records that 45% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 21% White, 19% Black, 10% Asian, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NORMA DORSEY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.1%, the actual is 47.0%, a residual of -2.1 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Dallas County put median household earnings sit near $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which NORMA DORSEY EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: BACK EL, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NORMA DORSEY EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NORMA DORSEY EL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 38.6%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 9%: 630 students in 2018 compared to 571 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 35% to 21%.

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