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SCHULZE EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 9 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SCHULZE EL
SCHULZE EL is a primary school of heavily attended scale in IRVING, Texas, overseen by IRVING ISD, works with 811 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 56% above typical.
Across the 37 schools in IRVING ISD (31,918 students total), SCHULZE EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, SCHULZE EL logs that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 5% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, SCHULZE EL has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Dallas County's rate of about 77%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SCHULZE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.7%, the actual is 22.0%, a residual of -10.7 points.
In the area at large, Dallas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), SCHULZE EL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: BRITAIN EL, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SCHULZE EL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 21%: 669 students in 2018 compared to 811 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 79% to 90% across the same window.
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