PERSONALIZED LEARNING PREPARATORY AT SAM HOUSTON

PERSONALIZED LEARNING PREPARATORY AT SAM HOUSTON operates as a modestly sized elementary-level community in DALLAS, Texas, one of the schools within DALLAS ISD. Current enrollment sits at 250 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 52% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

PERSONALIZED LEARNING PREPARATORY AT SAM HOUSTON is one of 240 schools operated by DALLAS ISD, a district that instructs 140,630 students overall.

Looking at the student body, PERSONALIZED LEARNING PREPARATORY AT SAM HOUSTON lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 56%. Other groups include 26% Black, 9% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PERSONALIZED LEARNING PREPARATORY AT SAM HOUSTON sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.0%; this one delivers 48.4%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate median household income runs about $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 PERSONALIZED LEARNING PREPARATORY AT SAM HOUSTON is one.

Nearest neighbor: DALLAS HYBRID PREPARATORY AT STEPHEN J HAY, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PERSONALIZED LEARNING PREPARATORY AT SAM HOUSTON ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 43.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PERSONALIZED LEARNING PREPARATORY AT SAM HOUSTON has ticked up 23%, going from 204 students in 2018 to 250 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment shrank from 71% to 56% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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