THOMAS L MARSALIS EL STEAM ACADEMY

Located at 5640 S MARSALIS AVE, in DALLAS, Texas, THOMAS L MARSALIS EL STEAM ACADEMY is a modestly sized primary school that hosts 392 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under DALLAS ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 24% leaner than the state mean of about 519.

DALLAS ISD comprises 240 schools with combined enrollment of 140,630 students; THOMAS L MARSALIS EL STEAM ACADEMY is among them.

On demographics, THOMAS L MARSALIS EL STEAM ACADEMY lists that 74% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 24% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting THOMAS L MARSALIS EL STEAM ACADEMY tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 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.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), THOMAS L MARSALIS EL STEAM ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.9%, the actual is 42.4%, a residual of +10.5 points.

In the area at large, Dallas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), THOMAS L MARSALIS EL STEAM ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

LIFE SCHOOL OAK CLIFF is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts THOMAS L MARSALIS EL STEAM ACADEMY at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 34.4%.

THOMAS L MARSALIS EL STEAM ACADEMY operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at THOMAS L MARSALIS EL STEAM ACADEMY has declined 28%, going from 545 students in 2018 to 392 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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