SAM RAYBURN EL STEAM ACADEMY

SAM RAYBURN EL STEAM ACADEMY is a medium-sized elementary school in GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, overseen by GRAND PRAIRIE ISD. The school educates 526 students in grades pre-K through 5.

GRAND PRAIRIE ISD comprises 40 schools with combined enrollment of 27,240 students; SAM RAYBURN EL STEAM ACADEMY is among them.

On demographics, SAM RAYBURN EL STEAM ACADEMY logs that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 9% Black, 4% White, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, SAM RAYBURN EL STEAM ACADEMY reports 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, SAM RAYBURN EL STEAM ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.7%, the actual is 32.9%, a residual of -4.8 points.

In the surrounding community, Dallas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which SAM RAYBURN EL STEAM ACADEMY is one.

Nearest neighbor: GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT BARBARA BUSH EL, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SAM RAYBURN EL STEAM ACADEMY at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 49.9%.

SAM RAYBURN EL STEAM ACADEMY operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. SAM RAYBURN EL STEAM ACADEMY's enrollment has ticked down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 566 (now 526). White enrollment moved from 11% to 4% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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