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WILMER-HUTCHINS EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About WILMER-HUTCHINS EL
WILMER-HUTCHINS EL is one of the mid-tier primary schools in DALLAS, Texas, run under DALLAS ISD, with 563 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 240 schools in DALLAS ISD (140,630 students total), WILMER-HUTCHINS EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, WILMER-HUTCHINS EL shows that 66% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 29% Black, 2% White. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, WILMER-HUTCHINS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.8%, the actual is 44.9%, a residual of +13.1 points.
Around the school, census data for Dallas County shows 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%. WILMER-HUTCHINS EL is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).
WILMER-HUTCHINS H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WILMER-HUTCHINS EL comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 29.0%.
WILMER-HUTCHINS EL operates from a rural location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WILMER-HUTCHINS EL has shrank 39%, going from 919 students in 2018 to 563 in 2025.
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