ROLLING HILLS EL

ROLLING HILLS EL is one of the intimate elementary-level communitys in LANCASTER, Texas, operated by LANCASTER ISD, with 388 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 25% below typical.

Within LANCASTER ISD, which oversees 10 schools and 6,822 students, ROLLING HILLS EL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, ROLLING HILLS EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (86%); the rest reads as 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ROLLING HILLS EL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. 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), ROLLING HILLS EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.8%.

In the area at large, census data for Dallas County shows 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%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which ROLLING HILLS EL is one.

The closest other public school is ILTEXAS LANCASTER 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), ROLLING HILLS EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 27.1%.

ROLLING HILLS EL operates from a rural location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROLLING HILLS EL has edged down 24%, going from 509 students in 2018 to 388 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 92% to 86% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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