[7] Mockingbird is one campus housing Dallas ISD's deaf program for elementary school.
Matthew Haag of The Dallas Morning News wrote "Under Henderson's leadership, Jackson received numerous honors.
"[9] In previous periods it had about 100 districtwide deaf students and 100 zoned families, but by 2007 the school's popularity among neighborhood parents increased.
[9] The school was renamed effective July 1, 2018,[11] as the former namesake was a general in the Confederate States of America during the U.S. Civil War.
[18][19] The impetus for the renaming was the Charlottesville car attack that occurred the previous year in the backdrop of the Unite the Right rally.
There is an auditorium where theater class and school plays are held, and a lunchroom on the first floor as well as a kindergarten hall.
[23] In previous periods the number of deaf students, about 100, made up half of the school's enrollment.
[23] In 2018 former teachers reported that due to the increasing importance of meeting Texas state accountability goals, the school no longer gave all of its students ASL instruction.
"[10] Haag stated in 2013 that "Parents have lauded Stonewall, [...] as a campus on par with a private school.
[9] Principles and Methods of Adapted Physical Education and Recreation (2005 edition) states that the "unique and exceptional efforts in educating all children" enrolled resulted in the school receiving the Blue Ribbon Award,[26] for the 1998–1999 school year.
[9] Due to the school's reputation, area parents are perennially opposed to changing the attendance boundary of the school; circa 2004 there was a proposal to rezone parts of the Stonewall Jackson zone to Robert E. Lee, an underutilized school which did not have the same reputation that Stonewall Jackson had; area parents campaigned to instead build portable buildings on the campus of Stonewall Jackson to accommodate more students.
[28] In 2014 Keri Mitchell of Advocate Lakewood/East Dallas stated that various parents in the R. E. Lee zone had their children sent to Stonewall Jackson, but by that year the latter school had reached capacity.
In 2011 the TEA began counting the performances of the at-the-time 40 deaf students, who were not previously counted, causing that year's ranking to be "acceptable"; this prompted fears of prospective parents choosing not to enroll their children and a decline in property values.
In 2011 The Dallas Morning News stated that the campus "has become a destination for more affluent families who have a choice about where they send their children.
[32] In 2007–2008, after Mark Painter was laid off due to DISD budget cuts, parents started a campaign called Stonewall Gardens to generate funding so the school could employ him again, and it did.