JOHN W AND MARGIE STIPES EL

Located at 3100 CROSS TIMBERS, in IRVING, Texas, JOHN W AND MARGIE STIPES EL is a sprawling elementary-level community that enrolls 827 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under IRVING ISD. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 59% bigger than typical.

JOHN W AND MARGIE STIPES EL is one of 37 schools operated by IRVING ISD, a district that instructs 31,918 students overall.

On the student-mix side, JOHN W AND MARGIE STIPES EL reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 72%; the rest reads as 12% White, 5% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Native American. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, JOHN W AND MARGIE STIPES EL has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 84% of students at JOHN W AND MARGIE STIPES EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JOHN W AND MARGIE STIPES EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.3%; this one delivers 30.2%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Dallas County) shows that 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), JOHN W AND MARGIE STIPES EL is one campus in the mix.

BROWN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOHN W AND MARGIE STIPES EL. On composite proficiency, JOHN W AND MARGIE STIPES EL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 35.5%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JOHN W AND MARGIE STIPES EL has rose 19%, going from 695 students in 2018 to 827 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 64% to 72% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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