SAN JACINTO EL

As a modestly sized elementary-level community in DALLAS, Texas, SAN JACINTO EL teaches 437 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by DALLAS ISD.

SAN JACINTO EL is one of 240 schools operated by DALLAS ISD, a district that instructs 140,630 students overall.

Looking at the student body, SAN JACINTO EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). The remainder reads as 7% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SAN JACINTO EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.9%; this one delivers 34.3%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate median household income runs about $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. SAN JACINTO EL is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

The closest other public school is PIEDMONT GLOBAL ACADEMY, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SAN JACINTO EL. On composite proficiency, SAN JACINTO EL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 34.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SAN JACINTO EL has declined 9%, going from 482 students in 2018 to 437 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 19% to 7% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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