WATERFORD OAKS EL

WATERFORD OAKS EL is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in CEDAR HILL, Texas, part of CEDAR HILL ISD. The school serves 521 students in grades pre-K through 5.

WATERFORD OAKS EL is one of 12 schools operated by CEDAR HILL ISD, a district that caters to 6,253 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WATERFORD OAKS EL records that Black students make up the majority at 76%; the rest comes out to 18% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, WATERFORD OAKS EL has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 76% of students at WATERFORD OAKS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WATERFORD OAKS EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 34.8%.

Across the wider county, census data for Dallas County shows median household earnings sit near $76,547, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which WATERFORD OAKS EL is one.

BESSIE COLEMAN MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WATERFORD OAKS EL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 31.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. WATERFORD OAKS EL's enrollment has decreased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 565 (now 521). The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.