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SCHULZE EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-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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