JACKIE MAE TOWNSELL EL

JACKIE MAE TOWNSELL EL is one of the large elementary campuss in IRVING, Texas, part of IRVING ISD, with 845 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 63% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Across the 37 schools in IRVING ISD (31,918 students total), JACKIE MAE TOWNSELL EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JACKIE MAE TOWNSELL EL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 58% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 24% Black, 11% Asian, 3% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting JACKIE MAE TOWNSELL EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 88% of students at JACKIE MAE TOWNSELL EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. 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), JACKIE MAE TOWNSELL EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.7%.

In the broader 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), JACKIE MAE TOWNSELL EL is one campus in the mix.

CLIFTON EARLY CHILDHOOD is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, JACKIE MAE TOWNSELL EL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 33.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 6%: 795 students in 2018 compared to 845 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 51% to 58% over that span.

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