Merrifield Elementary School

Size

Merrifield Elementary School is the 7th largest of Duncanville ISD's 9 elementary schools; its 393 students are 3.4% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 446; Merrifield Elementary School is close to their typical size.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 4 with 80 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 50, against an average of 66 per grade. This year grade 4 has 31% more students than kindergarten (80 against 61). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 50 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 53.4% here and 55.1% across Duncanville ISD. Black students are next, at 42.5%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

87.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 78.1% across Duncanville ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 23.92 full-time-equivalent teachers for 393 students, Merrifield Elementary School has 16.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 393 students would have about 26.6 teachers, so Merrifield Elementary School has 2.7 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Merrifield Elementary School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Central Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 141 other elementary schools, 32 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.