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What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 33 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 28 points.
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
SALLYE R MOORE COLLEGE & CAREER PREPARATORY is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary schools in GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, run under GRAND PRAIRIE ISD, with 608 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8.
GRAND PRAIRIE ISD comprises 40 schools with combined enrollment of 27,240 students; SALLYE R MOORE COLLEGE & CAREER PREPARATORY is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, SALLYE R MOORE COLLEGE & CAREER PREPARATORY lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 32% Black, 6% White, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, The school employs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SALLYE R MOORE COLLEGE & CAREER PREPARATORY tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 77% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
With demographic context factored in, SALLYE R MOORE COLLEGE & CAREER PREPARATORY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.3%, the actual is 44.8%, a residual of +4.5 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Dallas County put 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 SALLYE R MOORE COLLEGE & CAREER PREPARATORY is one.
Nearest neighbor: JOHN A DUBISKI CAREER H S, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SALLYE R MOORE COLLEGE & CAREER PREPARATORY at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 40.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Trend over the last 7 years. SALLYE R MOORE COLLEGE & CAREER PREPARATORY's enrollment has grew 23% since 2018, when it stood at 495 (now 608). Over the same period, the White share fell from 14% to 6%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.
On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
