YOUNG MEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FRED F FLORENCE

YOUNG MEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FRED F FLORENCE is a small intermediate school in DALLAS, Texas, run under DALLAS ISD. The school caters to 467 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 27% smaller than typical.

DALLAS ISD runs 240 schools in total, collectively educating 140,630 students. YOUNG MEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FRED F FLORENCE is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, YOUNG MEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FRED F FLORENCE logs that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 14% Black. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting YOUNG MEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FRED F FLORENCE higher than the state norm the norm. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, YOUNG MEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FRED F FLORENCE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.1%, the actual is 25.3%, a residual of -5.8 points.

In the surrounding community, Dallas County reports that median household income runs about $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. YOUNG MEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FRED F FLORENCE is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

Nearest neighbor: PLEASANT GROVE EL, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts YOUNG MEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FRED F FLORENCE at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 37.4%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 51%: 952 students in 2018 compared to 467 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 23% to 14%. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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