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JACK E SINGLEY ACADEMY
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 33 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 13 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 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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