YALE EL

YALE EL, an intimate elementary school in RICHARDSON, Texas, overseen by RICHARDSON ISD, instructs 429 students, covering grades pre-K through 6.

RICHARDSON ISD comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 38,526 students; YALE EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, YALE EL shows that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 26% Hispanic, 11% Black, 10% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, YALE EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.3%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Dallas County) shows that median household earnings sit near $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), YALE EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BIG SPRINGS EL, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, YALE EL comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 47.2%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 427 students in 2018 compared to 429 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 18% to 26%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

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