RUBY YOUNG TALENTED AND GIFTED ACADEMY

RUBY YOUNG TALENTED AND GIFTED ACADEMY, an intimate elementary school in DESOTO, Texas, part of DESOTO ISD, enrolls 263 students, covering grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 49% leaner than the state mean of about 519.

Within DESOTO ISD, which oversees 11 schools and 5,708 students, RUBY YOUNG TALENTED AND GIFTED ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

On demographics, RUBY YOUNG TALENTED AND GIFTED ACADEMY shows that Black students make up the majority at 73%. Beyond that, the school reports 21% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting RUBY YOUNG TALENTED AND GIFTED ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

After controlling for student poverty, RUBY YOUNG TALENTED AND GIFTED ACADEMY falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 48.3%; this one comes in at 28.9%, -19.4 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Dallas County put median household income runs about $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which RUBY YOUNG TALENTED AND GIFTED ACADEMY is one.

Nearest neighbor: DESOTO WEST MIDDLE, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RUBY YOUNG TALENTED AND GIFTED ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, RUBY YOUNG TALENTED AND GIFTED ACADEMY comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.6%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. RUBY YOUNG TALENTED AND GIFTED ACADEMY's enrollment has decreased 56% since 2018, when it stood at 596 (now 263). Over the same period, the Black share declined from 85% to 73%. Class-load math has grew: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 in 2025.

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