LIVELY EL

LIVELY EL is a roomy K-5 school in IRVING, Texas, part of IRVING ISD. The school caters to 794 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 53% larger than the state mean of about 519.

LIVELY EL is one of 37 schools operated by IRVING ISD, a district that teaches 31,918 students overall.

Looking at the student body, LIVELY EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (83%); the rest reads as 9% White, 3% Black, 2% Native American. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting LIVELY EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 83% of students at LIVELY EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LIVELY EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.3%.

In the broader community, Dallas County reports 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%. LIVELY EL is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

CROCKETT MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LIVELY EL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 32.2%.

LIVELY EL operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LIVELY EL has stayed largely flat, going from 810 students in 2018 to 794 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 71% to 83% across the same window.

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