Desoto ISD 鈥� Dallas County, TX: Schools & Enrollment

Key statistics

5,708

Students enrolled

11

Public schools

313

Classroom teachers (FTE)

18.3:1

Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

Pre-K 402
Kindergarten 318
Grade 1 324
Grade 2 344
Grade 3 327
Grade 4 386
Grade 5 345
Grade 6 417
Grade 7 420
Grade 8 475
Grade 9 572
Grade 10 529
Grade 11 416
Grade 12 433

By race/ethnicity

Black or African American 70%
Hispanic/Latino 24%
Two or more races 3%
White 2%
Asian <1%
American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

65% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 3,688 of 5,708 students in the district's schools

Free lunch 59%
Reduced-price lunch 6%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$13,331 spent per student on day-to-day operations Texas median: $13,954 per student

Spending per student

Instruction $6,379
Support services $6,295
Other (food service, etc.) $658

Where the money comes from

Local 53%
State 32%
Federal 16%

Total revenue $95.7 milliontotal spending $85.5 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Suburb: Large

Total staff (FTE)

645

District office

200 E BELT LINE RD, Desoto TX 75115

Phone

(972) 223-6666

County

Dallas County

Official website

NCES District ID

4816860

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About DESOTO ISD

Description provided by the district or community 鈥� not part of the NCES dataset.

With a current enrollment just over 9,000 students, DeSoto ISD is a small, suburban district 15 miles south of Dallas in north Texas. The 23-square-mile district serves students in DeSoto, Glenn Heights, and Ovilla with 12 campuses. The mission of DeSoto ISD is to prepare each student academically and socially to be a problem solver and productive citizen for a 21st century global society.