Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
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.
