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SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS
Set in DALLAS, Texas, SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS is a close-knit secondary school, overseen by DALLAS ISD. It serves 497 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS sits 38% leaner than that benchmark.
Across the 240 schools in DALLAS ISD (140,630 students total), SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%). Other groups include 14% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 37.3%; SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS posts 88.1%, +50.8 points above that line.
Around the school, Dallas County reports that median household income runs about $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS is one campus in the mix.
SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 80.0%.
The school occupies a downtown site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS has contracted 9%, going from 546 students in 2018 to 497 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 73% to 81% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 today.
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