RUFUS C BURLESON EL

RUFUS C BURLESON EL, a reasonably sized elementary campus in DALLAS, Texas, operated by DALLAS ISD, educates 472 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 240 schools in DALLAS ISD (140,630 students total), RUFUS C BURLESON EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, RUFUS C BURLESON EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment; the rest looks like 31% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 98% of students at RUFUS C BURLESON EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, RUFUS C BURLESON EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.2%; this one delivers 44.2%.

Across the wider county, census data for Dallas County shows median household earnings sit near $76,547, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), RUFUS C BURLESON EL is one campus in the mix.

E B COMSTOCK MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RUFUS C BURLESON EL. On composite proficiency, RUFUS C BURLESON EL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 31.2%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. RUFUS C BURLESON EL's enrollment has declined 31% since 2018, when it stood at 684 (now 472). Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 39% to 31%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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