STEPHEN C FOSTER EL

STEPHEN C FOSTER EL is a reasonably sized primary school in DALLAS, Texas, part of DALLAS ISD. The school enrolls 604 students in grades pre-K through 6.

DALLAS ISD comprises 240 schools with combined enrollment of 140,630 students; STEPHEN C FOSTER EL is among them.

On demographics, STEPHEN C FOSTER EL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%). Beyond that, the school lists 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), STEPHEN C FOSTER EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.5%, the actual is 34.5%, a residual of +3.0 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Dallas County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), STEPHEN C FOSTER EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: UPLIFT TRIUMPH PREP PS, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around STEPHEN C FOSTER EL. On composite proficiency, STEPHEN C FOSTER EL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 33.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at STEPHEN C FOSTER EL has declined 17%, going from 725 students in 2018 to 604 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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