IRVING DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY

IRVING DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY is a reasonably sized elementary-level community in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, run under SAN ANTONIO ISD. The school teaches 557 students in grades pre-K through 8.

IRVING DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY is one of 100 schools operated by SAN ANTONIO ISD, a district that works with 47,623 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, IRVING DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

After controlling for student poverty, IRVING DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.2%, the actual is 35.6%, a residual of +0.4 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Bexar County) records that median household earnings sit near $72,341, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which IRVING DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY is one.

The closest other public school is DAVID CROCKETT ACADEMY, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, IRVING DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 22.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. IRVING DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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