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Local Statistics
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One out of
every five Dallas children is being raised in poverty.
(United
Way of Metropolitan Dallas)
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According to HUD criteria, 25% of Dallas
County households are defined as very low-income households.
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89% of Dallas’ public school
children are living below the poverty level.
(Dallas Independent School District Campus Data
Support Department, 2005)
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Of the
thousands of children who need after school programs in Dallas, there
are only enough after school slots to care for 12.5% of these
children.
(Dallas Commission on Children and Youth)
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Camp Fire USA currently serves over 7,000 children each year.
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According
to the KIDS
COUNT- Right Start Online, 2002,
Dallas
ranks last among the 50
largest cities in births to mothers with low education.
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According
to Dallas County Child Death and Infant Mortality Review Team,
from 1995 - 2001,
25% of Dallas
County preventable teenage (ages 13-17) homicides occurred between 4-11 p.m.
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Stats on the Students and Schools of
the
Dallas Independent School District
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Roughly
76.1% (135,232) of the children in the Dallas Independent School District
are economically disadvantaged and qualify for free or reduce school
lunches.
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Dallas has
the second-highest graduation rate among the 10 largest U.S. cities.
However, roughly one out of every four residents (ages 25 and older) in
Dallas has not completed high school.
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Hispanics in
Dallas have the lowest high school completion rate (33.4%) and the lowest
college completion rate (6.5%) among the major ethnic groups in the city.
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Less than
50% of the Dallas ISD seniors in 2002 took a
college entrance
exam.
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SAT and ACT
scores for Dallas ISD graduates are below the state average.
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