RANGE EL

RANGE EL, a mid-tier elementary school in MESQUITE, Texas, run under MESQUITE ISD, works with 587 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

MESQUITE ISD comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 37,930 students; RANGE EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, RANGE EL lists that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 13% Black, 7% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, RANGE EL records 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting RANGE EL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), RANGE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.1%, the actual is 42.7%, a residual of +6.6 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Dallas County shows median household earnings sit near $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. RANGE EL is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

TRINITY BASIN PREPARATORY - MESQUITE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, RANGE EL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.6%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RANGE EL has fell 23%, going from 763 students in 2018 to 587 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 58% to 76%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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