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Enrollment
472
Elementary
DISTRICT 488 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DALLAS ISD·NCES 481623001222
Rufus C Burleson Elementary School
6300 ELAM RD, DALLAS, TX 75217 · (972) 749-4500 · Dallas County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL472 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 69% of Texas public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
461 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 52 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 78 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from DALLAS ISD. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
51.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +8.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
54.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +2.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 8 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 26.0% | 25.0% | 23.0% | 26.0% |
| Mathematics | 24.0% | 30.0% | 26.0% | 20.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 51.0% | 54.0% |
| 2024-25 | 55.0% | 62.0% |
| 2023-24 | 48.0% | 55.0% |
| 2022-23 | 54.0% | 69.0% |
| 2021-22 | 52.0% | 54.0% |
| 2020-21 | 43.0% | 52.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
47.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.0%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 32% 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 16 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Rufus C Burleson Elementary School
Rufus C Burleson Elementary School's state test result (47.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rufus C Burleson Elementary School this school | 472 | 97.7% | 47.9% |
| Dogan Elementary School HOUSTON | 448 | 98.7% | 29.6% |
| Marshall Elementary School HOUSTON | 453 | 97.8% | 37.3% |
| John W Runyon Elementary School DALLAS | 417 | 97.4% | 29.3% |
| Shearn Elementary School HOUSTON | 470 | 95.3% | 22.3% |
| Varnett Charter School HOUSTON | 530 | 95.8% | 28.9% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Rufus C Burleson Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Dallas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.9% | #1,647 of 4,401 | #102 of 421 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #1,381 of 4,466 ▼ 631 | #93 of 429 ▼ 35 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #2,367 of 4,466 ▼ 472 | #168 of 429 ▼ 34 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -9.0pp | #393 of 3,998 | #54 of 399 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 472 | #2,801 of 4,938 | #250 of 448 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #2,233 of 4,622 | #201 of 432 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.9% | #2,737 of 4,628 | #217 of 433 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.7% | #221 of 4,789 | #54 of 437 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.0% | #457 of 2,838 | #59 of 274 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
472
-45 (-9%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 507
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 14.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 472 | 32 | 14.8:1 | 98% (461) |
| 2023-24 | 513 | 38 | 13.5:1 | 98% (501) |
| 2022-23 | 506 | 35 | 14.5:1 | 98% (494) |
| 2020-21 | 517 | 36 | 14.4:1 | 96% (497) |
| 2017-18 | 684 | 42 | 16.3:1 | 98% (673) |
| 2015-16 | 740 | 43 | 17.2:1 | 99% (735) |
| 2010-11 | 793 | 52 | 15.3:1 | 95% (753) |
| 2000-01 | 504 | 25 | 20.2:1 | 94% (473) |
| 1990-91 | 507 | 28 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rufus C Burleson Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (684 to 472); teachers down 24% (42 to 32).
About Rufus C Burleson Elementary School
As a mid-sized elementary school, Rufus C Burleson Elementary School serves students in DALLAS, Texas. In all, 472 students attend the school in pre-K through 5.
Rufus C Burleson Elementary School sits within DALLAS ISD, which has 240 schools and 140,630 students.
Hispanic students are 67% of those enrolled at Rufus C Burleson Elementary School. Other reported shares: 31% Black. That compares with about 41% Hispanic among all Dallas County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 46%.
Its staff includes 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 14.8 students per teacher. The average ratio among elementary schools in Texas is similar, at 15.1:1. There are 461 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 98% of enrollment. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Dallas County is 77%.
Rufus C Burleson Elementary School earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 69% of Texas public elementary schools.
Compared with Texas schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Rufus C Burleson Elementary School does better than predicted by 15.9 points. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 47.9%; the prediction is 32.0%.
In the surrounding county, Dallas County, the median household earns about $76,547 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Counting Rufus C Burleson Elementary School, Dallas County has 771 public schools.
Rufus C Burleson Elementary School is about 0.7 miles from E B Comstock Middle School, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Rufus C Burleson Elementary School is ahead of the 34.4% nearby average, ranking 1st of 9.
NCES assigns Rufus C Burleson Elementary School the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 472, from 517 in 2020-21.
People can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates and other school topics. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Dallas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,621,179
Census ACS
Median income
$76,547
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
771
459,645 students
Quick facts
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- Frederick Douglass Elementary School0.8 mi · 453
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- W A Blair Elementary School1.6 mi · 367
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Frequently asked questions
About Rufus C Burleson Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Rufus C Burleson Elementary School?
Rufus C Burleson Elementary School enrolls approximately 472 students in grades PK-05.
Is Rufus C Burleson Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Rufus C Burleson Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Rufus C Burleson Elementary School have?
Rufus C Burleson Elementary School employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Rufus C Burleson Elementary School?
Student demographics at Rufus C Burleson Elementary School are roughly 1% White, 67% Hispanic, 31% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Rufus C Burleson Elementary School in?
Rufus C Burleson Elementary School is part of DALLAS ISD.
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