GREAT HEARTS IRVING UPPER

GREAT HEARTS IRVING UPPER is a mid-sized senior high in IRVING, Texas, overseen by GREAT HEARTS TEXAS. The school serves 937 students in grades 6 through 12.

GREAT HEARTS TEXAS runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 12,926 students. GREAT HEARTS IRVING UPPER is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, GREAT HEARTS IRVING UPPER logs that the most-represented group is Asian (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 31% White, 21% Hispanic, 9% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 7% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, GREAT HEARTS IRVING UPPER sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.6%; this one delivers 68.4%.

In the area at large, Dallas County reports that median household earnings sit near $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. GREAT HEARTS IRVING UPPER is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

Nearest neighbor: GREAT HEARTS IRVING, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GREAT HEARTS IRVING UPPER at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 46.6%.

The school occupies a city-core site. As a public charter, GREAT HEARTS IRVING UPPER runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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