OTTO M FRIDIA EL

OTTO M FRIDIA EL is an elementary school of low-enrollment scale in DALLAS, Texas, overseen by DALLAS ISD, instructing 212 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 59% below the state mean of about 519.

DALLAS ISD comprises 240 schools with combined enrollment of 140,630 students; OTTO M FRIDIA EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, OTTO M FRIDIA EL logs that 75% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder looks like 16% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, OTTO M FRIDIA EL has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.2:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, OTTO M FRIDIA EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.0%; this one delivers 30.9%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Dallas County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which OTTO M FRIDIA EL is one.

KATHLYN JOY GILLIAM COLLEGIATE ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts OTTO M FRIDIA EL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 43.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at OTTO M FRIDIA EL has decreased 43%, going from 372 students in 2018 to 212 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 89% to 75% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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