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GREAT HEARTS IRVING
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 12 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 65% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About GREAT HEARTS IRVING
GREAT HEARTS IRVING is an elementary campus of mid-tier scale in IRVING, Texas, run under GREAT HEARTS TEXAS, instructing 719 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so GREAT HEARTS IRVING sits 39% above that benchmark.
GREAT HEARTS TEXAS runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 12,926 students. GREAT HEARTS IRVING is one of those campuses.
On demographics, GREAT HEARTS IRVING records that 49% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 22% White, 18% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 7% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.6:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 20% of students at GREAT HEARTS IRVING qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is south of typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, GREAT HEARTS IRVING sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 65.3%; actual is 48.6%, a gap of -16.6 points.
Across the wider county, Dallas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. GREAT HEARTS IRVING is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).
WINFREE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (IRVING) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GREAT HEARTS IRVING. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GREAT HEARTS IRVING at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 49.9%.
GREAT HEARTS IRVING operates from a downtown location. GREAT HEARTS IRVING is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 12%: 815 students in 2018 compared to 719 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 44% to 22%.
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