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Dorothy Martinez Elem

Denton County · Region 11: Fort Worth · 554 students

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Current score
72/1002025-26
Change
+15 ptssince 2024-25
Score vs similar economic context
−8.4 ptsvs 80.4 average · 1,978 rated schools serving a similar economic context
Similar economic-disadvantage rate placement
1,567 of 1,978tied with 45 others
C72

At a glance

The available rating history is moving up. The current score is below the 80.4 average for 1,978 rated schools serving a similar economic context.

Evidence worth noticing

Strengths and momentum

Selected positive signals, not a summary of performance. The same rules choose them on every page: only the latest one-year gain, results meaningfully better than the currently selected comparison with broad reporting, and distinctive top-three placements. Demographics, staffing and spending cannot become academic “wins.” The overall rating and the full results below remain the complete picture for this school.

Read the full rating context and placement

Dorothy Martinez Elem is rated C by TEA, scoring 72 out of 100 for 2025-26 — below the 80.4 average for 1,978 rated schools serving a similar economic context. It is up 15 points since 2024-25.

Ranks 1,567th of 1,978 rated schools serving a similar economic context (tied with 45 others).

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  1. Overview
  2. Official improvement and transfer notices
  3. 2 years of ratings
  4. Where the score comes from
  5. Student outcomes
  6. Who this school serves
  7. Student counts behind the percentages
  8. Enrollment over time
  9. Discipline and removal from class
  10. Spending per student
  11. Teachers and actual class size
  12. Where this school ranks best
  13. Where this comes from

Official improvement and transfer notices

Official state and federal designations can carry support, reporting requirements or a family transfer option that a single A–F rating does not explain.

2026-27 school year

Public Education Grant transfer eligibility

Students assigned to this campus may request a transfer under the state's PEG program.

A request is not guaranteed. A receiving district may apply its enrollment rules, and transportation is not automatically provided.

Read the official PEG rules and list

Schools identified for improvement

This school
Not listed
Selected comparison
25.6%

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,978 rated schools reporting

Schools on the PEG list

This school
Listed
Selected comparison
2.4%

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,978 rated schools reporting

Selected comparison percentages are the share of reporting schools in that group found on each dated list. They are neutral prevalence context; changing the comparison never changes this school's official status.

These are dated TEA statuses, fetched 24 August 2026; they are not added to or subtracted from this site's rating.

2 years of ratings

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Compare against
9080706050 Similar economic-disadvantage rateTexas averageDorothy Martinez Elem 5772 2024-252025-26

Comparison lines follow the current rated cohort backward through time. The table gives the number in that fixed cohort that reported a score each year; it can be smaller than cohort membership.

View the yearly scores and comparisons
Rating history with comparisons
YearRatingScoreSelected comparisonSimilar economic-disadvantage rateStateTexas average
2025-26C7280.4 1,978 reporting81.3 7,646 reporting
2024-25F5780.1 1,953 reporting81.2 7,554 reporting

Where the score comes from

Texas builds the overall rating from the better of Student Achievement and School Progress, weighted 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. School Progress is itself the better of Academic Growth and Relative Performance. The 60, 70, 80 and 90 rules mark the letter-grade thresholds.

  • Student Achievement60 D−18.5 vs similar economic context · 1,886 reporting
  • School Progress71 C−10.1 vs similar economic context · 1,879 reporting
  • Closing the Gaps75 C−2.6 vs similar economic context · 1,861 reporting
  • Academic Growth71 C−3.2 vs similar economic context · 1,824 reporting
  • Relative Performance57 F−22.4 vs similar economic context · 1,879 reporting
  • Dorothy Martinez Elem
  • Similar economic-disadvantage rate (1,978 in cohort)
Domain scores
DomainScoreGradePoints to next grade
Student Achievement60D10
School Progress71C9
Closing the Gaps75C5
Academic Growth71C9
Relative Performance57F3

Closest to moving up: Closing the Gaps, 5 points below B in that domain — the nearest of the measures that count toward the overall rating.

TEA does not add the domains up. The overall score is the better of Student Achievement and School Progress at 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. For this school that better measure is School Progress (71), so Student Achievement (60) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 71.

Student outcomes

STAAR performance

All Subjects

  • Approaches grade level59%−16 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,886 reporting
  • Meets grade level33%−16 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,886 reporting
  • Masters grade level12%−8 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,886 reporting
Reading3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level64%−12 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,883 reporting
  • Meets grade level37%−17 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,883 reporting
  • Masters grade level14%−8 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,883 reporting
Math3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level56%−16 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,875 reporting
  • Meets grade level31%−12 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,875 reporting
  • Masters grade level9%−8 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,875 reporting
Science3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level53%−22 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,726 reporting
  • Meets grade level29%−18 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,726 reporting
  • Masters grade level14%−7 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,726 reporting
  • Approaches grade level
  • Meets grade level
  • Masters grade level
  • Tick: Similar economic-disadvantage rate (1,978 in cohort)

Percentage of tests at or above each level. Masters is a subset of Meets, which is a subset of Approaches. The selected-comparison tick on each bar marks the average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate — a comparison TEA does not publish.

Counts in the comparison controls describe full cohort membership, not the denominator of every average. Each average uses only schools for which TEA reported that measure; metric-specific reporting counts are shown on the STAAR, graduation and CCMR rows and may vary.

Who this school serves

Placed after the results deliberately: this is context for reading them, not an explanation of them.

Students
554
Economically disadvantaged
62.4%−0.3 pts vs similar economic context
English learners
16.5%−0.4 pts vs similar economic context
Special education
20.9%+2.0 pts vs similar economic context
Attendance
93.4%−0.8 pts vs similar economic context
Chronically absent
21.0%+4.7 pts vs similar economic context

Student demographics

Dorothy Martinez Elem

African American: 44.5%Hispanic: 19.8%White: 13.1%American Indian: 0.4%Asian: 10.3%Two or More Races: 12%
  • African American 44.5%
  • Hispanic 19.8%
  • White 13.1%
  • American Indian 0.4%
  • Asian 10.3%
  • Two or More Races 12%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,978 reporting for every category shown · 1,978 in full cohort

African American: 10.7%Hispanic: 49.9%White: 32.9%American Indian: 0.3%Asian: 2.3%Pacific Islander: 0.2%Two or More Races: 3.8%
  • African American 10.7%
  • Hispanic 49.9%
  • White 32.9%
  • American Indian 0.3%
  • Asian 2.3%
  • Pacific Islander 0.2%
  • Two or More Races 3.8%

Student counts behind the percentages

Context only. These counts are not rankings, comparisons, or judgments about school quality.

Students in this TEA accountability summary
551
Economically disadvantaged students
344
Emergent bilingual students
91
Special education students
115

Campus mobility · 2024–25

Mobile students
129
Students in TEA mobility denominator
473
TEA-published mobility rate
27.3%

The mobility count and rate use TEA’s separate 2024–25 campus denominator shown above, not current enrollment. This site does not recalculate a missing rate.

The first figure is TEA’s student count for this accountability summary. It is a separate publication from the fall PEIMS enrollment shown above and can differ; this site does not substitute one for the other. Counts come from TEA’s 2025-26 accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026. A reported zero is shown as 0. Small-number and complementary masks, unavailable values, and blank not-reported fields stay separate and are never estimated. TEA masking definitions.

Enrollment over time

TEA-reported student enrollment for each available school year. Enrollment growth or decline is not a measure of school quality.

TEA reported 554 students in 2025–26, an increase of 13 (2.4%) from 2024–25.

Latest enrollment
554

2025–26

Change from 2024–25
+13

Increase · +2.4%

Enrollment in 2025–26

This school
554
Selected comparison
624.7

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,942 rated schools reporting

Student enrollment by school year for Dorothy Martinez Elem
School yearStudents enrolledDorothy Martinez ElemChange from previous school yearAverage enrollmentselected comparison
2024–25 541 First available year 635.7
2025–26 554 Increase of 13 (2.4%) 624.7

The selected comparison column is the average enrollment among reporting schools in that group. It changes with the comparison control; this school's own counts do not.

Source: TEA PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. TEA reports these counts from its fall student snapshot; changes compare adjacent reported school years.

These counts show how enrollment changed, not why. Attendance-zone changes, school openings or closures, grade reconfigurations, transfers and population shifts can affect the total.

Discipline and removal from class

TEA’s annual student and action counts, kept separate and divided only by the matching full-year enrollment. These figures describe removals from instruction, not a simple safe-or-unsafe score.

Students in TEA’s all-discipline count
44

7.1% of cumulative year-end enrollment

Disciplinary actions
75

12.14 per 100 students

Cumulative year-end enrollment
618

2024–25

Share of students · 2024–25

This school
7.1%
Selected comparison
12.9%

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,508 rated schools reporting

−5.8 pts vs similar economic context

Actions per 100 students · 2024–25

This school
12.14
Selected comparison
29.6

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,633 rated schools reporting

−17.5 vs similar economic context
TEA all-discipline student and action counts by school year for Dorothy Martinez Elem
School yearCumulative enrollmentStudentsall disciplineStudents% of enrollmentActionsall disciplineActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
2024–25 618 44 7.1% 75 12.14 12.9% 29.6
See 2024–25 discipline categories
TEA discipline categories for Dorothy Martinez Elem in 2024–25
CategoryStudentsStudents% of enrollmentActionsActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
All discipline 44 7.1% 75 12.14 12.9% 29.6
In-school suspensions 29 4.7% 40 6.47 11.5% 22.8
Out-of-school suspensions 24 3.9% 34 5.50 6.9% 10.2
DAEP placements Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
Mandatory DAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary DAEP placements Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —

Selected comparisons use rates, not raw counts, so differently sized schools can be read on the same basis. Each average uses only group members for which TEA reported that rate; this school's own counts and rates remain fixed.

Students, actions and incidents are different units. One student can receive multiple actions. The categories overlap, so they must not be added together. Rates use TEA's matching cumulative year-end enrollment, not the October enrollment shown elsewhere on this page.

Source: TEA Discipline Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. Suppressed values stay unavailable rather than being estimated. Use 2020–21 cautiously because remote instruction during the pandemic changed students' exposure to in-person discipline. TEA consolidated its separate action-group reports into this product in 2024–25; this trend uses only the stable “All discipline” heading.

Spending per student

The campus and its parent district stay fixed while the selected same-sector txschools.net comparison changes with the page-wide control. TEA's own peer group and statewide reference remain visible as separately published, fixed TEA references.

$11k$20k$28k2025
  • Dorothy Martinez Elem
  • Parent district: Denton ISD
  • Texas average
  • Selected comparison: Similar economic-disadvantage rate

Spending per student · 2025

This school
$21,123
Selected comparison
$12,501

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,949 rated schools reporting

+$8,622 vs similar economic context

For 2025, TEA reported $21,123 per student for this campus, $26,904 per student for its parent district, Denton ISD, $18,972 per student for the Texas average.

Not reported in this TEA campus finance record: TEA peer group.

View yearly spending figures
Spending per student by year
YearDorothy Martinez ElemParent district: Denton ISDTexas averageSelected comparison averageReportingselected comparison
2025$21,123$26,904$18,972$12,501 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,949 rated schools reporting

The selected-comparison reporting count is year-specific and can vary across the table. Dollar amounts are shown as TEA published them and are not adjusted for inflation.

Teachers and actual class size

Average salary
$58,171−$8,187 vs similar economic context
Teachers
36−6.7 vs similar economic context
Students per staff member
15.5−3.6 vs similar economic context

Teaching experience

Dorothy Martinez Elem

Beginning: 8.5%1 to 5 years: 50.7%6 to 10 years: 31%11 to 20 years: 8.5%21 to 30 years: 1.4%
  • Beginning 8.5%
  • 1 to 5 years 50.7%
  • 6 to 10 years 31%
  • 11 to 20 years 8.5%
  • 21 to 30 years 1.4%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,978 reporting for every category shown · 1,978 in full cohort

Beginning: 6.2%1 to 5 years: 25.9%6 to 10 years: 19.1%11 to 20 years: 28.2%21 to 30 years: 16%Over 30 years: 4.2%
  • Beginning 6.2%
  • 1 to 5 years 25.9%
  • 6 to 10 years 19.1%
  • 11 to 20 years 28.2%
  • 21 to 30 years 16%
  • Over 30 years 4.2%

Average students in a class

TEA average class size by grade or subject for Dorothy Martinez Elem in 2024–25
Grade or subjectAverage students per classDorothy Martinez Elem · 2024–25Average students per classselected comparison
Kindergarten2318
Grade 119.218.2
Grade 217.118.4
Grade 316.718.6
Grade 418.919
Grade 521.319.7

These are TEA's actual class-size averages for the grade or subject shown, not the student-to-teacher ratio. TEA reported 6 of 12 categories for this campus; the categories are not combined into a made-up campus-wide average. Each selected comparison average uses only schools reporting that same grade or subject.

Source: TEA Texas Academic Performance Reports, fetched 24 August 2026.

Where this school ranks best

Out of 105 rankings computed across every published metric and every available comparison group, these are all the measures that meet this site’s distinctive-placement threshold. The list does not change when you change Compare against. Each measure appears once, using its strongest placement. Press Copy for a citable sentence.

Other top-5% rankings

High placements in larger reporting groups

1 measure

  • 197of 4,705

    Per-student spending

    Similar size · of the 4,705 that report this measure

These are selected high placements, not a summary. Every figure above this section is the full picture, including where this school ranks poorly. Each measure appears once here, using its strongest qualifying placement across all available comparison groups. Very large ties are left out because they do not distinguish this school; any tie that does appear is labeled. Every ranking this site publishes, including the ones no school would put in a press release.

Where this comes from

The Texas Education Agency publishes the underlying accountability reports and data downloads. Ratings, outcomes, demographics, staffing and finance on this page come from TEA data available through txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026. TEA’s Reports and Data Portal links the official bulk files. Enrollment history comes from TEA's PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations reports, fetched 24 August 2026. The student-count context comes from TEA’s bulk accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026; TEA’s masking definitions explain withheld values. The dated notice, staffing, discipline, transfer, community and postsecondary sections cite their separate TEA, Census or THECB publication in place. Every archived source carries checksums so each number stays traceable to the bytes the public agency served.

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Single-file records are pre-built for district-level records only, so there is no per-campus CSV to link here. Producing both formats for every entity would consume most of the 20,000-asset deployment limit before pages and shared data are counted. This campus is a row in the bulk files on the download page, keyed by its TEA id 061901131.