FREEMAN EL

FREEMAN EL operates as a moderately sized primary school in IRVING, Texas, operated by CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD. Current enrollment sits at 651 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 25% bigger than the state mean of about 519.

Across the 39 schools in CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (24,165 students total), FREEMAN EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, FREEMAN EL logs that 66% of the student body identifies as Asian. Beyond that, the school lists 18% Black, 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, FREEMAN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.1%, the actual is 62.7%, a residual of +1.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, Dallas County reports that median household earnings sit near $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. FREEMAN EL is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

The closest other public school is LANDRY EL, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FREEMAN EL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FREEMAN EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 62.9%.

FREEMAN EL operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FREEMAN EL has ticked up 3%, going from 630 students in 2018 to 651 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment expanded from 58% to 66% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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