PIEDMONT GLOBAL ACADEMY

PIEDMONT GLOBAL ACADEMY is a moderately sized middle-grades school in DALLAS, Texas, one of the schools within DALLAS ISD. The school works with 692 students in grades 6 through 8.

Across the 240 schools in DALLAS ISD (140,630 students total), PIEDMONT GLOBAL ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, PIEDMONT GLOBAL ACADEMY lists that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder is composed of 9% Black, 2% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, PIEDMONT GLOBAL ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.6%.

Zooming out to the county, Dallas County reports that median household earnings sit near $76,547, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. PIEDMONT GLOBAL ACADEMY is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

Nearest neighbor: SAN JACINTO EL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PIEDMONT GLOBAL ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PIEDMONT GLOBAL ACADEMY at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 34.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Looking at the recent track record. PIEDMONT GLOBAL ACADEMY's enrollment has contracted 31% since 2018, when it stood at 1,006 (now 692). Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 14% to 9%.

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