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HALEY T EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 10 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HALEY T EL
HALEY T EL operates as a well-populated elementary-level community in IRVING, Texas, part of IRVING ISD. Current enrollment sits at 793 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 53% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
Within IRVING ISD, which oversees 37 schools and 31,918 students, HALEY T EL is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, HALEY T EL reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 31% Black, 12% Asian, 10% White, 3% Native American. Compared to Dallas County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting HALEY T EL higher than the state norm the norm. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
With demographic context factored in, HALEY T EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.6%, the actual is 27.3%, a residual of -10.3 points.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), HALEY T EL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: CLIFTON EARLY CHILDHOOD, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HALEY T EL. On composite proficiency, HALEY T EL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.6%.
The campus sits in a city-core setting.
Five-year trend. HALEY T EL's enrollment has contracted 7% since 2018, when it stood at 851 (now 793). Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 43% to 31%.
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