NORTHRICH EL

NORTHRICH EL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in RICHARDSON, Texas, part of RICHARDSON ISD. The school works with 509 students in grades pre-K through 6.

RICHARDSON ISD comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 38,526 students; NORTHRICH EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, NORTHRICH EL logs that 64% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 17% White, 11% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 65% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), NORTHRICH EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.4%, the actual is 50.2%, a residual of +4.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Dallas County shows median household earnings sit near $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which NORTHRICH EL is one.

RICHARDSON NORTH J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NORTHRICH EL at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 62.1%.

NORTHRICH EL operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NORTHRICH EL has climbed 18%, going from 432 students in 2018 to 509 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 53% to 64% over that span.

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