SHEFFIELD EL

SHEFFIELD EL is a mid-sized primary school in DALLAS, Texas, operated by CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD. The school teaches 658 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 27% bigger than the state mean of about 519.

CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD comprises 39 schools with combined enrollment of 24,165 students; SHEFFIELD EL is among them.

On demographics, SHEFFIELD EL reports that 69% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 24% Black, 4% White. By comparison, Denton County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, SHEFFIELD EL has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 81% of students at SHEFFIELD EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Denton County's rate of about 35%.

With demographic context factored in, SHEFFIELD EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 38.4%; SHEFFIELD EL posts 21.9%, -16.5 points below that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Denton County indicate median household income runs about $111,498, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Denton County runs 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), of which SHEFFIELD EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: LONG MIDDLE, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SHEFFIELD EL. On composite proficiency, SHEFFIELD EL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.1%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 13%: 755 students in 2018 compared to 658 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 48% to 69% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the SHEFFIELD EL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.