OBADIAH KNIGHT EL

OBADIAH KNIGHT EL, a cozy elementary school in DALLAS, Texas, overseen by DALLAS ISD, serves 279 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so OBADIAH KNIGHT EL sits 46% leaner than that benchmark.

DALLAS ISD comprises 240 schools with combined enrollment of 140,630 students; OBADIAH KNIGHT EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, OBADIAH KNIGHT EL reports that nearly all students (92%) are Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 5% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

With demographic context factored in, OBADIAH KNIGHT EL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 31.0%; this one delivers 48.9%, a residual of +17.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Dallas County put 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 OBADIAH KNIGHT EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: BIOMEDICAL PREPARATORY AT UT SOUTHWESTERN, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, OBADIAH KNIGHT EL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at OBADIAH KNIGHT EL has shrank 45%, going from 511 students in 2018 to 279 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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