PARKHILL J H

As an average-sized 6-8 campus in DALLAS, Texas, PARKHILL J H hosts 650 students from grades 7 through 8, overseen by RICHARDSON ISD.

PARKHILL J H is one of 55 schools operated by RICHARDSON ISD, a district that enrolls 38,526 students overall.

On demographics, PARKHILL J H shows that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 42% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

With demographic context factored in, PARKHILL J H performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.9%, the actual is 53.6%, a residual of -6.3 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Dallas County put the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, 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 PARKHILL J H is one.

The closest other public school is BRENTFIELD EL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PARKHILL J H ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 69.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PARKHILL J H has stayed largely flat, going from 636 students in 2018 to 650 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 42% to 48% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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