ROSEMONT UPPER
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 13 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 44% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ROSEMONT UPPER
Set in DALLAS, Texas, ROSEMONT UPPER is a close-knit middle school, overseen by DALLAS ISD. It serves 459 students across grades 3 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 29% leaner than the state mean of about 643.
DALLAS ISD comprises 240 schools with combined enrollment of 140,630 students; ROSEMONT UPPER is among them.
Looking at the student body, ROSEMONT UPPER logs that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 10% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 69% of students at ROSEMONT UPPER qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Dallas County's rate of about 77%.
With demographic context factored in, ROSEMONT UPPER ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 43.8%; ROSEMONT UPPER posts 63.6%, +19.8 points above that line.
Around the school, Dallas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 ROSEMONT UPPER is one.
ROSEMONT LOWER - CHRIS V SEMOS BUILDING is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROSEMONT UPPER. On composite proficiency, ROSEMONT UPPER comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 38.6%.
The school occupies a metropolitan site.
Trend over the last 7 years. ROSEMONT UPPER's enrollment has rose 134% since 2018, when it stood at 196 (now 459). Hispanic enrollment moved from 98% to 85% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.
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