Everette Lee Degolyer El, Dallas TX

Original Research by School Decision on Everette Lee Degolyer El

Everette Lee DeGolyer Elementary sits on Flair Drive in northwest Dallas, part of Dallas ISD and serving students from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. The school's neighborhood falls within a part of the city that, publicly reported accounts describe as mixing residential and commercial uses, distinct from the denser, more walkable inner neighborhoods like Uptown or Deep Ellum. Like most of Dallas, this area is oriented around the car.

On Texas's STAAR assessments, DeGolyer's results are mixed depending on subject and grade. Reading and language arts results are the clearest strength: proficiency climbs steadily from third grade into fifth, and the school's overall ELA rate across tested grades is comfortably above the midpoint of Dallas County districts. Math tells a similar upward story by grade, with fifth graders performing notably better than third and fourth graders, and the overall math proficiency is also solidly positioned in the top quarter relative to districts countywide. The school's overall proficiency index, which averages across tested subjects and grades, places it in the top quartile among districts in Dallas County. That positioning is genuinely positive context for a school inside a large urban district.

Science is a different picture. The fifth-grade science proficiency rate sits well below the reading and math results, and below what a parent might hope to see at that grade. A family with a student heading into fifth grade may want to ask the school directly about how science instruction is structured and supported.

Social studies results land somewhere in the middle: the approaches rate is reasonable, but the share of students reaching the highest mastery tier is quite low. That gap between basic approach and full mastery is worth noting.

The student body reflects Dallas's demographics. Hispanic students make up the majority enrollment, with white students the next largest group, and smaller shares of Black, multiracial, and other students. Close to half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a sign of a genuinely mixed economic community. English learner and special education counts were not available in the data provided. Grade 4 ELA results on the Spanish-language STAAR were suppressed because only one student was tested in that form, so that data point does not represent a gap in the school's overall picture.

Enrollment runs from pre-K through fifth grade, with roughly typical class sizes for a school this size in a large urban district. The school is a regular public school, not a charter and not designated as a magnet, though magnet designation data was absent and a parent would want to confirm that directly with the district.

At the district level, Dallas ISD voters recently approved what is publicly reported as a record bond for Texas, funding replacement of aging schools, elimination of portable classrooms, and campus upgrades across the district over the coming years. Whether DeGolyer is among the campuses in line for renovation or replacement is not specified in the available data, and families considering the school longer term should ask the district about its specific plans. The district also publicly moved to automatically enroll high-scoring students into advanced coursework rather than requiring families to opt in, which broadened access to college-prep pathways. A new districtwide math curriculum is also in place, and the district has reduced its reliance on internal standardized test preparation.

Housing in this part of Dallas runs substantially above Texas and national median home values, with the zip code showing year-over-year appreciation. Rents in the area are also above median. This is one of the more expensive entry points into Dallas ISD, and families coming from elsewhere should factor that in. Graduation rate data does not apply here since DeGolyer serves only elementary grades. Chronic absenteeism data was not available.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 353%

School 53% · District 19% · ▲ 34 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 447%

School 47% · District 21% · ▲ 26 pts above district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Grade 562%

School 62% · District 46% · ▲ 16 pts above district

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▲ 24 pts above county median

Grade 676%

School 76% · District 32% · ▲ 44 pts above district

▲ 42 pts above state median · ▲ 46 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 354%

School 54% · District 50% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Grade 569%

School 69% · District 58% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 15 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 679%

School 79% · District 48% · ▲ 31 pts above district

▲ 27 pts above state median · ▲ 35 pts above county median

Science

Grade 536%

School 36% · District 13% · ▲ 23 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

This schoolDALLAS ISD, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 4Lower-income48%Higher-income70%22 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income71%Higher-income92%21 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income26%Higher-income82%56 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income29%Higher-income65%36 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income58%Higher-income69%11 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income71%Higher-income83%12 pp gap