PLEASANT GROVE EL

PLEASANT GROVE EL is a close-knit elementary-level community in DALLAS, Texas, one of the schools within DALLAS ISD. The school enrolls 417 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within DALLAS ISD, which oversees 240 schools and 140,630 students, PLEASANT GROVE EL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, PLEASANT GROVE EL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (83%). Beyond that, the school logs 14% Black. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, PLEASANT GROVE EL has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 97% of students at PLEASANT GROVE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PLEASANT GROVE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.6%, the actual is 32.9%, a residual of +1.3 points.

In the broader community, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), PLEASANT GROVE EL is one campus in the mix.

YOUNG MEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FRED F FLORENCE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PLEASANT GROVE EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PLEASANT GROVE EL at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 36.3%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PLEASANT GROVE EL has contracted 25%, going from 555 students in 2018 to 417 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 24% to 14% across the same window.

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