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Summary Prospectus by Investment Company (Form 497K)

DIMENSIONAL ETF TRUST

Ticker:

Exchange:

Dimensional US Large Cap Core Equity Market ETF

DFAL

Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.

Summary Prospectus

May 27, 2026

Before you invest, you may want to review the Portfolio's Prospectus, which contains more information about the Portfolio and its risks. You can find the Portfolio's Prospectus and other information about the Portfolio, including the Statement of Additional Information (SAI) and most recent reports to shareholders, when available, online at https://www.dimensional.com/us-en/document-center. You can also get this information at no cost by calling collect to (512) 306-7400 or by sending an e-mail request to [email protected]. The Portfolio's Prospectus and SAI, both dated May 27, 2026, as may be supplemented, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus.

Investment Objective

The investment objective of the Dimensional US Large Cap Core Equity Market ETF (the "US Large Cap Core ETF" or "Portfolio") is to achieve long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses of the Portfolio

This table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy, hold or sell shares of the Portfolio. You may also incur usual and customary brokerage commissions when buying or selling shares of the Portfolio, which are not reflected in the table or Example that follows.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment): None

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each
year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Management Fee

0.10%

Other Expenses1

0.02%

Acquired Fund Fees & Expenses1

0.01%

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

0.13%

Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement2

0.01%

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement

0.12%

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The Portfolio is a new portfolio, so the "Other Expenses" and "Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses" shown are based on anticipated fees and expenses for the first full fiscal year.

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Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (the "Advisor") has agreed to waive certain fees and in certain instances, assume certain expenses of the Portfolio. The Fee Waiver and/or Expense Assumption Agreement for the Portfolio will remain in effect through February 28, 2028, and may only be terminated by the Trust's Board of Trustees prior to that date. Under certain circumstances, the Advisor retains the right to seek reimbursement for any fees previously waived and/or expenses previously assumed up to thirty-six months after such fee waiver and/or expense assumption.

EXAMPLE

This Example is meant to help you compare the cost of investing in the Portfolio with the cost of investing in other funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Portfolio for the time periods indicated. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Portfolio's operating expenses remain the same. The costs for the Portfolio reflect the net expenses of the Portfolio that result from the contractual expense waiver in the first year only. Although your

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actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs whether you sell or hold your shares would be:

1 Year

3 Years

$12

$41

PORTFOLIO TURNOVER

A fund generally pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Portfolio shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the Example, affect the Portfolio's performance. Because the Portfolio is new, information about portfolio turnover rate is not yet available.

Principal Investment Strategies

To achieve the US Large Cap Core Equity ETF's investment objective, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (the "Advisor") implements an integrated investment approach that combines research, portfolio design, portfolio management, and trading functions. As further described below, the Portfolio's design emphasizes long-term drivers of expected returns identified by the Advisor's research, while balancing risk through broad diversification across companies and sectors. The Advisor's portfolio management and trading processes further balance those long-term drivers of expected returns with shorter-term drivers of expected returns and trading costs.

The Portfolio is designed to purchase a broad and diverse group of readily marketable equity securities of U.S. companies that the Advisor determines to be large capitalization companies within the U.S. Universe, as defined below. As a non-fundamental policy, under normal circumstances, the Portfolio will invest at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of large cap U.S. companies. For purposes of the policy, the Advisor considers equity securities to primarily consist of common stocks. The Portfolio also may invest up to 20% of its net assets in securities of smaller capitalization U.S. companies. A company's market capitalization is the number of its shares outstanding times its price per share. The Advisor generally defines a U.S. company as one that is listed and principally traded on a securities exchange in the United States that is deemed appropriate by the Advisor. The Advisor generally defines the "U.S. Universe" as a market capitalization weighted set (e.g., the larger the company, the greater the proportion of the U.S. Universe it represents) of U.S. companies.

For purposes of the Portfolio, the Advisor considers large cap companies to be companies whose market capitalizations are larger than or equal to the 1,000th largest U.S. company within the U.S. Universe. Under the Advisor's market capitalization guidelines described above, based on market capitalization data as of

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December 31, 2025, the market capitalization of a large cap company would be approximately $4,480 million or above. This threshold will change due to market conditions.

The Advisor may overweight certain securities, including smaller companies, lower relative price stocks, and/or higher profitability stocks within the U.S. Universe. An equity issuer is considered to have a low relative price (i.e., a value stock) primarily because it has a low price in relation to its book value. In assessing relative price, the Advisor may consider additional factors such as price to cash flow or price to earnings ratios. An equity issuer is considered to have high profitability because it has high earnings or profits from operations in relation to its book value or assets. The criteria the Advisor uses for assessing relative price and profitability are subject to change from time to time. The Advisor may also increase or reduce the Portfolio's exposure to an eligible company, or exclude a company, based on shorter-term considerations, such as a company's price momentum and short-run reversals. In addition, the Advisor seeks to reduce trading costs using a flexible trading approach that looks for opportunities to participate in the available market liquidity, while managing turnover and explicit transaction costs.

At inception, the Portfolio intends to invest in eligible securities directly and/or through other affiliated and unaffiliated exchange-traded funds.

The Portfolio may purchase or sell futures contracts and options on futures contracts for U.S. equity securities and indices to increase or decrease equity market exposure based on actual or expected cash inflows to or outflows from the Portfolio.

The Portfolio may lend its portfolio securities to generate additional income.

The Portfolio operates as an actively managed exchange-traded fund ("ETF") and does not seek to replicate the performance of a specific index and may have a higher degree of portfolio turnover than passively managed index ETFs.

Principal Risks

Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.

Tax Risk: The Portfolio's initial investment portfolio will be acquired through one or more in-kind contributions that are intended to qualify as tax-deferred transactions governed by Section 351 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"). The carryover tax basis in such securities could be less than current fair market value and the Portfolio could, upon a taxable sale of such securities, recognize more capital gain or less capital loss than would have been the case if the

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Portfolio originally acquired such securities by purchase or through the issuance of Creation Units. Such a difference in tax basis, however, would not have an adverse effect if the Portfolio distributes such securities in redeeming Creation Units.

If one or more of the in-kind contributions were to be determined later to fail to qualify for tax-deferred treatment under Section 351, then the Portfolio would not take a carryover tax basis in the applicable contributed assets and would not benefit from a tacked holding period in those assets. This could cause the Portfolio to incorrectly calculate and report to shareholders the amount of gain or loss recognized and/or the character of gain or loss (e.g., as long-term or short-term) on the subsequent disposition of such assets. This also could result in the Portfolio's failure to distribute all of its gains during an applicable year, which could result in the imposition of income tax on the Portfolio with respect to the undistributed gain and, in some circumstances, pose a risk that the Portfolio would lose its qualification as a regulated investment company.

The failure of a contribution to satisfy the requirements of Section 351 would cause the contribution to be treated as a taxable event for the contributing shareholder at the time of contribution. If such failure is not discovered until a later time, this could also cause the contributing shareholder to incorrectly calculate and report gain or loss on its disposition of its Portfolio shares.

Future changes in the Code or regulations and/or future interpretations by the IRS applicable to Section 351 could impact the tax treatment of such contributions. The Trust reserves the right to take any action with regard to the Portfolio as it deems appropriate in response to any such changes or guidance without notification to current or former investors in the Portfolio. Investors considering making in-kind contributions to the Portfolio are urged to consult their own tax advisors.

Fund of Funds Risk: The investment performance of a fund of funds is affected by the investment performance of the underlying funds in which the fund of funds invests. The ability of a fund of funds to achieve its investment objective depends on the ability of the underlying funds to meet their investment objectives and on the Advisor's decisions regarding the allocation of a fund of funds' assets among the underlying funds. A fund of funds may allocate assets to an underlying fund or asset class that underperforms other funds or asset classes. There can be no assurance that the investment objective of a fund of funds or any underlying fund will be achieved. Through its investments in the underlying funds, a fund of funds is subject to the risks of the underlying funds' investments. When a fund of funds invests in underlying funds, investors are exposed to a proportionate share of the expenses of those underlying funds in addition to the expenses of a fund of funds. Certain risks of the Portfolio and the Underlying Funds' investments that are principal risks of investing in the Portfolio are described below.

Equity Market Risk: Even a long-term investment approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, environmental, political, and issuer-specific conditions and events

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will cause the value of equity securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall. Stock markets are volatile, with periods of rising prices and periods of falling prices.

Small and Mid-Cap Company Risk: Securities of small and mid-cap companies are often less liquid than those of large companies and this could make it difficult to sell a small or mid-cap company security at a desired time or price. As a result, small and mid-cap company stocks may fluctuate relatively more in price. In general, small and mid-capitalization companies are also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic developments and they may have more limited resources.

Profitability Investment Risk: High relative profitability stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.

Value Investment Risk: Value stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and an investment strategy purchasing these securities may cause a fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies. Value stocks can react differently to political, economic, and industry developments than the market as a whole and other types of stocks. Value stocks also may underperform the market for long periods of time.

Market Trading Risk: Active trading markets for a fund's shares may not be developed or maintained by market makers or authorized participants. Authorized participants are not obligated to make a market in a fund's shares or to submit purchase or redemption orders for creation units, which may widen bid-ask spreads. Trading in shares on an exchange may be halted in certain circumstances. There can be no assurance that the requirements of the listing exchange necessary to maintain the listing of a fund's shares will continue to be met. Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market for a fund's shares may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the fund's portfolio holdings, which may cause a significant variance in the market price of a fund's shares and their underlying value as well as an increase in a fund's shares' bid-ask spread.

Premium/Discount Risk: The net asset value ("NAV") of a fund's shares and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Disruptions to creations and redemptions or the market price of a fund's holdings, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of an active trading market for shares may widen bid-ask spreads and result in shares trading at a significant premium or discount to NAV. If a shareholder purchases shares at a time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells shares at a time when the market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may sustain losses.

Derivatives Risk: Derivatives are instruments, such as futures contracts, and options thereon, whose value is derived from that of other assets, rates or indices. The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than

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other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty, liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as difficulties with respect to valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.

Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result, a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse tax consequences.

Operational Risk: Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes, and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning ("AI"). Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund's or its advisor's control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.

Cyber Security Risk: A fund and its service providers' use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational functionality.

Performance

Performance information is not available for the Portfolio because it has not yet completed a full calendar year of operations. Updated performance information for the Portfolio can be obtained in the future by visiting https://www.dimensional.com/us-en/funds.

Investment Advisor/Portfolio Management

Dimensional Fund Advisors LP serves as the investment advisor for the Portfolio. The following individuals are responsible for leading the day-to-day management of the Portfolio:

• Jed S. Fogdall, Global Head of Portfolio Management, Chairman of the Investment Committee, Vice President, and Senior Portfolio Manager of the Advisor, has been a portfolio manager of the Portfolio since inception (2026).

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• John A. Hertzer, Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager of the Advisor, has been a portfolio manager of the Portfolio since inception (2026).

• Allen Pu, Deputy Head of Portfolio Management, North America, member of the Investment Committee, Vice President, and Senior Portfolio Manager of the Advisor, has been a portfolio manager of the Portfolio since inception (2026).

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares

The Portfolio issues (or redeems) shares at NAV only to certain financial institutions that have entered into agreements with the Portfolio's distributor in large aggregated blocks known as "Creation Units." A Creation Unit of the Portfolio consists of 25,000 shares. Creation Units are issued (or redeemed) in-kind for securities (and an amount of cash) that the Portfolio specifies each day at the NAV next determined after receipt of an order.

Individual Portfolio shares may only be purchased and sold on Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc., other national securities exchanges, electronic crossing networks and other alternative trading systems through your broker-dealer at market prices. An investor may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay to purchase shares (bid) and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for shares (ask) when buying or selling shares in the secondary market (the "bid-ask spread"). Because Portfolio shares trade at market prices rather than at NAV, Portfolio shares may trade at a price less than (discount) or greater than (premium) the Portfolio's NAV. Recent information, including information on the Portfolio's NAV, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads, is available on the Portfolio's website at https://www.dimensional.com/us-en/funds.

Tax Information

The dividends and distributions you receive from the Portfolio are taxable and generally will be taxed as ordinary income, capital gains, or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-advantaged arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account, in which case distributions may be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from the plan or account.

Payments to Financial Intermediaries

If you purchase the Portfolio through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Portfolio and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of the Portfolio shares and/or related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the financial intermediary to recommend the Portfolio over another investment. Ask your financial advisor or visit your financial intermediary's website for more information.

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