S GUS ALEXANDER JR EL

As a low-enrollment elementary school in DUNCANVILLE, Texas, S GUS ALEXANDER JR EL caters to 330 students from grades pre-K through 4, run under DUNCANVILLE ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 36% smaller than the state mean of about 519.

DUNCANVILLE ISD comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 11,562 students; S GUS ALEXANDER JR EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, S GUS ALEXANDER JR EL logs that the most-represented group is Black (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 40% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, S GUS ALEXANDER JR EL records 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), S GUS ALEXANDER JR EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 39.4%; this one comes in at 20.0%, -19.4 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate median household income runs about $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 S GUS ALEXANDER JR EL is one.

VILLAGE TECH SCHOOLS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts S GUS ALEXANDER JR EL at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 27.5%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 25%: 440 students in 2018 compared to 330 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged up from 45% to 53%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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