ST ANTHONY ACADEMY

ST ANTHONY ACADEMY is an elementary school of very small scale in DALLAS, Texas, run under ST ANTHONY SCHOOL, educateing 202 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so ST ANTHONY ACADEMY sits 61% smaller than that benchmark.

ST ANTHONY SCHOOL comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 318 students; ST ANTHONY ACADEMY is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ST ANTHONY ACADEMY logs that nearly all students (97%) are Black. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, ST ANTHONY ACADEMY has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.5:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. 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, ST ANTHONY ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.1%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Dallas County put median household earnings sit near $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. ST ANTHONY ACADEMY is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

The closest other public school is ST ANTHONY SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ST ANTHONY ACADEMY comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area. ST ANTHONY ACADEMY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 9%: 222 students in 2018 compared to 202 in 2025.

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