LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE

LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE is a middle-grades school of medium-sized scale in IRVING, Texas, operated by IRVING ISD, educateing 832 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 29% bigger than the state mean of about 643.

IRVING ISD runs 37 schools in total, collectively educating 31,918 students. LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE records that nearly all students (86%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 7% White, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.3%, the actual is 45.6%, a residual of +7.3 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Dallas County) logs that median household earnings sit near $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: IRVING H S, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 30.5%.

LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE operates from a downtown location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE has contracted 3%, going from 861 students in 2018 to 832 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 81% to 86% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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