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WILMER-HUTCHINS EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 13 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-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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