HALEY J EL

HALEY J EL is one of the large primary schools in IRVING, Texas, run under IRVING ISD, with 782 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so HALEY J EL sits 51% larger than that benchmark.

IRVING ISD comprises 37 schools with combined enrollment of 31,918 students; HALEY J EL is among them.

In terms of who attends, HALEY J EL lists that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 9% White, 3% Native American, 2% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the resource side, The school employs 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HALEY J EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.6%; this one delivers 24.6%.

Around the school, census data for Dallas County shows median household income runs about $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), HALEY J EL is one campus in the mix.

LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HALEY J EL. On composite proficiency, HALEY J EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.0%.

HALEY J EL operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 13%: 693 students in 2018 compared to 782 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 78% to 85%.

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