RICHARD LAGOW EL

RICHARD LAGOW EL is one of the tight-knit primary schools in DALLAS, Texas, operated by DALLAS ISD, with 415 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 20% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

DALLAS ISD comprises 240 schools with combined enrollment of 140,630 students; RICHARD LAGOW EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, RICHARD LAGOW EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%); the rest breaks down as 11% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 98% of students at RICHARD LAGOW EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), RICHARD LAGOW EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.1%, the actual is 35.1%, a residual of +4.0 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Dallas County) logs that 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%. RICHARD LAGOW EL is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

The closest other public school is A+ ACADEMY EL, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RICHARD LAGOW EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 33.7%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RICHARD LAGOW EL has shrank 18%, going from 509 students in 2018 to 415 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 73% to 82% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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