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What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 100 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 96 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 41 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 14 points.
What this means: About 96% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 66% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 30 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
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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