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WILLIAM B TRAVIS VANGUARD ACAD OF ACADEMICALLY TAG is a low-enrollment intermediate school in DALLAS, Texas, part of DALLAS ISD. The school works with 517 students in grades 4 through 8.
WILLIAM B TRAVIS VANGUARD ACAD OF ACADEMICALLY TAG is one of 240 schools operated by DALLAS ISD, a district that caters to 140,630 students overall.
Looking at the student body, WILLIAM B TRAVIS VANGUARD ACAD OF ACADEMICALLY TAG logs that 52% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 24% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 9% multiracial, 4% Black. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 18% 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 below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WILLIAM B TRAVIS VANGUARD ACAD OF ACADEMICALLY TAG ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 65.9%; WILLIAM B TRAVIS VANGUARD ACAD OF ACADEMICALLY TAG posts 95.9%, +29.9 points above that line.
In the broader community, Dallas County reports that 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%. WILLIAM B TRAVIS VANGUARD ACAD OF ACADEMICALLY TAG is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).
Nearest neighbor: NORTH DALLAS H S, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WILLIAM B TRAVIS VANGUARD ACAD OF ACADEMICALLY TAG. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WILLIAM B TRAVIS VANGUARD ACAD OF ACADEMICALLY TAG at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 43.2%.
WILLIAM B TRAVIS VANGUARD ACAD OF ACADEMICALLY TAG operates from a metropolitan location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WILLIAM B TRAVIS VANGUARD ACAD OF ACADEMICALLY TAG has increased 159%, going from 200 students in 2018 to 517 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 64% to 52% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 today.
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