📍 6911 Victoria Ave, Dallas, Dallas County, 75209
K B Polk Center for Academically Talented & Gifted is a State/Public serving elementary age pupils, located in Dallas, Dallas County. The school has 412 pupils enrolled. The Principal is James Wallace. It is part of the Dallas Isd school district. It serves grades Pre-K–8 in an urban setting. The school employs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 11.1:1. 22% of students are proficient in reading. 22% are proficient in maths. Technology infrastructure includes fiber internet, campus-wide Wi-Fi, devices for students.
K B Polk Center for Academically Talented & Gifted enrolls 412 students across grades Pre-K–8. The student body is 51% male and 49% female. A teaching staff of 37 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 11.1:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 70% Hispanic or Latino, 21% Black or African American and 6.1% White.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Hispanic or Latino | 289 | 70% |
| Black or African American | 88 | 21% |
| White | 25 | 6.1% |
| Two or more races | 6 | 1.5% |
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 3 | <1% |
| Asian | 1 | <1% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
337 of the school's 412 students (82%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Of these, 322 qualify for free lunch and 15 for a reduced price. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
K B Polk Center for Academically Talented & Gifted is located in an urban setting (NCES locale: City, Large). The school runs a schoolwide Title I program, which provides federal funding to support students from low-income families. For civic and policy purposes, the school sits in congressional district TX At-Large (non-voting delegate), state senate district 23, state house district 103.
K B Polk Center for Academically Talented & Gifted is one of 240 schools in DALLAS ISD, based in DALLAS, Texas. The district serves 139,802 students district-wide and employs 9,952 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 412 students, K B Polk Center for Academically Talented & Gifted is smaller than the district average of about 583 students per school.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Proficiency based on state assessments.
Setting: City - Large
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