The top reported proficiency rate is 51% in English language arts. The lowest is 0% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on David G Burnet El
David G. Burnet Elementary sits on Kinkaid Drive in Dallas, serving students from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade within Dallas ISD. The school is a standard public elementary, not a charter, and carries no magnet designation. Its enrollment is sizeable for a school spanning its grade band, with students spread fairly evenly across all grades from pre-K through sixth.
The student body is almost entirely Hispanic, with nearly all students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. That high economic-need share matters for context when reading the academic numbers below. English learner data was not available in what was provided, though the presence of Spanish-language STAAR administrations in the testing results suggests a meaningful share of students are assessed in Spanish, at least in the early tested grades.
On state assessments, the picture is mixed and worth a close look. Texas uses the STAAR exam, and results are reported at three thresholds: approaches grade level, meets grade level, and masters grade level. Across all tested subjects, roughly three-quarters of students approached grade level, which is the baseline standard. At the meets threshold, which represents more solid on-grade performance, about half of students cleared the bar. At masters, the highest tier, fewer than a quarter did. Those all-subject averages mask real variation by grade and subject. Reading and language arts proficiency at the meets level was stronger than math, where grade-level results at third grade in the Spanish-administered STAAR were quite low, a pattern worth asking the school about directly. Fourth grade math on the English STAAR was the school's strongest individual math result. Sixth grade math was weaker again. Science results at fifth grade, drawn from the Spanish STAAR, showed no students reaching proficiency in that tested cohort, though that cohort was small; a parent would reasonably want to follow up with the school on science support. Social studies, tested at sixth grade, showed low proficiency at the meets and masters levels. Among Dallas County's districts, the school's overall proficiency index sits above the midpoint, which is a meaningful position given the breadth of the county comparison set.
Dallas ISD has made several changes that directly affect what Burnet families experience. Publicly reported, the district moved away from an opt-in model for advanced coursework, automatically enrolling students who score well on state exams into honors-level math, reading, science, and social studies. That shift broadened access meaningfully across the district. The district also adopted a new math curriculum and eliminated its internal test-prep assessments, aiming to redirect instructional time. Most visibly, Dallas ISD voters approved a substantial bond in 2026, the largest in Texas history according to publicly reported accounts, which funds replacement of aging campuses, removal of all portable classrooms, and facility upgrades over the coming years. Whether Burnet specifically is among the schools slated for replacement or renovation would be worth confirming with the district.
The neighborhood sits in the broader Dallas real estate market, where home values are well above the Texas statewide benchmark and well above the national median. The local zip code shows modest year-over-year appreciation. Rents in the area represent a meaningful share of a typical household's income, and the estimated monthly mortgage on a median-priced home in this zip is substantial. For context, Dallas itself is a large, car-dependent city where walkability is concentrated in specific districts like Uptown, Deep Ellum, and Bishop Arts rather than distributed citywide. The Kinkaid Drive address sits in the northwest Dallas area, which publicly reported sources describe as a mix of residential and commercial or industrial zones.
Burnet is a school serving a high-need, predominantly Spanish-speaking community within a large urban district in active reform. ELA results are relatively solid at the meets level; math and science at certain grades need attention, and a parent should ask the school specifically about supports in those areas and how the new math curriculum is being implemented in the lower grades.
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