UME DALLAS SECONDARY

UME DALLAS SECONDARY is a moderately sized senior high in DALLAS, Texas, part of UME PREPARATORY ACADEMY. The school caters to 688 students in grades 7 through 12.

Across the 4 schools in UME PREPARATORY ACADEMY (1,703 students total), UME DALLAS SECONDARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, UME DALLAS SECONDARY logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 26% White, 13% Black, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.4:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, UME DALLAS SECONDARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 68.1%.

In the area at large, Dallas County reports that median household income runs about $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which UME DALLAS SECONDARY is one.

UME PREPARATORY ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around UME DALLAS SECONDARY. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), UME DALLAS SECONDARY ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 35.0%.

UME DALLAS SECONDARY operates from an inner-city location. UME DALLAS SECONDARY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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