Enrollment
279
Elementary
DISTRICT 488 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DALLAS ISD·NCES 481623001297
Obadiah Knight Elementary School
2615 ANSON RD, DALLAS, TX 75235 · (972) 749-5300 · Dallas County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL279 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 82% of Texas public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
274 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 23 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 36 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 36 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 45 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (36) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (45).
Student demographics
14%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from DALLAS ISD. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
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STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
50.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +12.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
50.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +5.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 12 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 23.0% | 27.0% | 15.0% | 35.0% |
| Mathematics | 21.0% | 29.0% | 21.0% | 29.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 50.0% | 50.0% |
| 2024-25 | 58.0% | 63.0% |
| 2023-24 | 48.0% | 56.0% |
| 2022-23 | 43.0% | 52.0% |
| 2021-22 | 31.0% | 54.0% |
| 2020-21 | 38.0% | 45.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
51.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.8%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 32% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Obadiah Knight Elementary School
Obadiah Knight Elementary School's state test result (51.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obadiah Knight Elementary School this school | 279 | 98.2% | 51.7% |
| H R Moye Elementary School EL PASO | 286 | 96.5% | 24.9% |
| Scroggins Elementary School HOUSTON | 287 | 99.0% | 38.3% |
| Port Houston Elementary School HOUSTON | 255 | 99.6% | 34.1% |
| Washington Heights Elementary School FORT WORTH | 268 | 95.1% | 36.4% |
| Harris J R Elementary School HOUSTON | 288 | 96.2% | 45.5% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Obadiah Knight Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Dallas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.7% | #1,290 of 4,401 | #79 of 421 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,738 of 4,466 ▼ 1,041 | #130 of 429 ▼ 76 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #2,490 of 4,466 ▼ 905 | #179 of 429 ▼ 68 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.5pp | #2,472 of 3,998 | #204 of 399 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 279 | #4,312 of 4,938 | #406 of 448 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #377 of 4,622 | #17 of 432 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 14.2% | #3,948 of 4,628 | #397 of 433 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.2% | #155 of 4,789 | #39 of 437 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -45.4% | #97 of 2,838 | #13 of 274 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
279
-106 (-28%) vs 2020
-59% since 1990-91, when it was 686
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 14.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 279 | 23.1 | 12.1:1 | 98% (274) |
| 2023-24 | 291 | 26 | 11.2:1 | 97% (281) |
| 2022-23 | 317 | 24 | 13.2:1 | 94% (298) |
| 2020-21 | 385 | 27 | 14.3:1 | 96% (368) |
| 2017-18 | 511 | 32.5 | 15.7:1 | 96% (489) |
| 2015-16 | 578 | 38 | 15.2:1 | 97% (562) |
| 2010-11 | 700 | 42 | 16.7:1 | 95% (666) |
| 2000-01 | 914 | 52 | 17.6:1 | 87% (797) |
| 1990-91 | 686 | 40 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Obadiah Knight Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 45% (511 to 279); teachers down 29% (32.5 to 23.1).
About Obadiah Knight Elementary School
Obadiah Knight Elementary School is a small elementary school in Texas, with an address in DALLAS. It reports enrollment of 279 students in pre-K through 5. That puts enrollment 46% below the 519-student average for elementary schools in Texas.
Obadiah Knight Elementary School is one of the 240 schools that make up DALLAS ISD (140,630 students in total).
Obadiah Knight Elementary School is 92% Hispanic by enrollment. Other reported shares: 5% Black. That compares with about 41% Hispanic among all Dallas County residents. The diversity index for Obadiah Knight Elementary School is 14%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school has 23.1 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 12.1 students per teacher. Elementary schools in Texas average 15.1:1, 3.0 more students per teacher than here. Of all students at Obadiah Knight Elementary School, 98% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 77% average among public schools in Dallas County.
Among Texas public elementary schools, Obadiah Knight Elementary School outscored 82%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Obadiah Knight Elementary School outperforms its prediction by 19.9 points. The model expects 31.8% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Texas; the school's rate is 51.7%.
In Dallas County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $76,547, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. There are 771 public schools in the county, enrolling about 459,645, Obadiah Knight Elementary School among them.
Biomedical Preparatory at Ut Southwestern, about 0.8 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Obadiah Knight Elementary School is 4th on average proficiency.
The federal government classifies Obadiah Knight Elementary School's location as City: Large.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 28% decline, from 385 to 279. Its ratio of students to teachers was 14.3:1 in 2020-21, and 12.1:1 in 2024-25.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on special education services, counseling, and support programs here. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Dallas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,621,179
Census ACS
Median income
$76,547
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
771
459,645 students
Quick facts
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- Biomedical Preparatory at Ut Southwestern0.8 mi · 213
- Uplift Williams Prep Middle School0.9 mi · 532
- Uplift Williams Prep PS0.9 mi · 584
- Uplift Williams Prep High School0.9 mi · 517
- K B Polk Center for Academically Talented & Gifted1.2 mi · 427
- Thomas J Rusk Middle School1.3 mi · 373
Frequently asked questions
About Obadiah Knight Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Obadiah Knight Elementary School?
Obadiah Knight Elementary School enrolls approximately 279 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Obadiah Knight Elementary School serve?
Obadiah Knight Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Obadiah Knight Elementary School have?
Obadiah Knight Elementary School employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Obadiah Knight Elementary School?
At Obadiah Knight Elementary School, the student body is approximately 1% White, 92% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is Obadiah Knight Elementary School public or private?
Obadiah Knight Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by DALLAS ISD.
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