while the district had 230 schools at this point. The school, initially in the Maple Lawn Independent School District, was formed in the 1900s by a consolidation of the Cochran Chapel school and the Maple Avenue School. The name was given by a child who suggested the name as part of a contest in exchange for $1. A two storey brick building was constructed on donated land with $10,000 raised by a bond. DISD annexed MLISD in 1922. Herbert Marcus Elementary School Thomas L. Marsalis Elementary School Eladio R. Martinez Learning Center José "Joe" May Elementary School - Near Lake Bachman and opened in 2012, it is named after an ex-DISD board member. Ronald Erwin McNair Elementary School Lee A. McShan, Jr. Elementary School is in Vickery Meadow. McShan, located on an site, includes of space with 33 core classrooms, three special education classrooms, dedicated classrooms for art, science, and technology classes, a 400-seat auditorium, and a gymnasium. In 2005 McShan, built with $12 million as part of a 2002 bond program, opened with 737 students, from pre-Kindergarten–sixth grade; the sixth grade would be transferred to the middle school the following year. Esperanza "Hope" Medrano Elementary School Ben Milam Elementary School - In 2018 Eva-Marie Ayala of Dallas Morning News identified it as the elementary school which covers most of Downtown Dallas. it serves almost all of Downtown Dallas. It opened in 1912 as the Fairland School. By 2015 gentrification was occurring in the area, which had the possibility of causing enrollment figures to decline. In 2018 many of the fewer than 300 students did not originate from its attendance zone." Ayala wrote that Milam "has limited space to grow much more if a new specialized program was offered there." In 2018 DISD designated it as one of six "decision point" schools which could be closed due to a low student population. William Brown Miller Elementary School Mockingbird Elementary School is located in Lower Greenville, and also serves Greenland Hills (the "M Streets"), and is in proximity to it. Its campus has a capacity of about 400 students. It was Previously known as Stonewall Jackson Elementary School but renamed on July 1, 2018 as the former namesake was a general in the Confederacy. Mockingbird houses Dallas ISD's deaf program for elementary school. In previous periods it had about 100 districtwide deaf students and 100 zoned families, but by 2007 the