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LANDRY EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LANDRY EL
As a mid-sized K-5 school in IRVING, Texas, LANDRY EL serves 474 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD.
LANDRY EL is one of 39 schools operated by CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD, a district that educates 24,165 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, LANDRY EL logs that the largest single group is Black at 46%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 21% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 8% White, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, LANDRY EL has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Dallas County's rate of about 77%.
After controlling for student poverty, LANDRY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 40.9%, a residual of -7.5 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate median household earnings sit near $76,547, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which LANDRY EL is one.
VALLEY RANCH EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LANDRY EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 66.0%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area.
Trend over the last 7 years. LANDRY EL's enrollment has ticked up 41% since 2018, when it stood at 335 (now 474). Black enrollment moved from 60% to 46% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.
On the community side, the feed for LANDRY EL typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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