BRITAIN EL

Set in IRVING, Texas, BRITAIN EL is a mid-tier elementary campus, part of IRVING ISD. It serves 637 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 23% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

IRVING ISD runs 37 schools in total, collectively educating 31,918 students. BRITAIN EL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, BRITAIN EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (83%); the rest breaks down as 11% White, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 95% of students at BRITAIN EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BRITAIN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 19.8%, a residual of -12.7 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Dallas County) logs that median household earnings sit near $76,547, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), BRITAIN EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BOWIE MIDDLE, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BRITAIN EL. On composite proficiency, BRITAIN EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 33.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. BRITAIN EL's enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 662 (now 637). Class-load math has widened: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2024.

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