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JACK E SINGLEY ACADEMY
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About JACK E SINGLEY ACADEMY
JACK E SINGLEY ACADEMY operates as a well-populated four-year high school in IRVING, Texas, part of IRVING ISD. Current enrollment sits at 1,697 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so JACK E SINGLEY ACADEMY sits 113% bigger than that benchmark.
IRVING ISD runs 37 schools in total, collectively educating 31,918 students. JACK E SINGLEY ACADEMY is one of those campuses.
On demographics, JACK E SINGLEY ACADEMY logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment; the rest reads as 10% Black, 7% Asian, 7% White, 2% Native American. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.
In terms of school funding signals, JACK E SINGLEY ACADEMY logs 96 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting JACK E SINGLEY ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
With demographic context factored in, JACK E SINGLEY ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.0%; this one delivers 51.4%.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Dallas County put median household income runs about $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), JACK E SINGLEY ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.
NORTH LAKE EARLY COLLEGE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, JACK E SINGLEY ACADEMY comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.8%.
The school occupies a city-core site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 1,733 students in 2018 compared to 1,697 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.
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