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TOWNLEY EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About TOWNLEY EL
Located at 1030 W VILBIG ST, in IRVING, Texas, TOWNLEY EL is an expansive elementary school that works with 804 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by IRVING ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 55% bigger than the state mean of about 519.
IRVING ISD comprises 37 schools with combined enrollment of 31,918 students; TOWNLEY EL is among them.
On the student-mix side, TOWNLEY EL logs that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder breaks down as 13% 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, On paper, TOWNLEY EL has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.4:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 92% of students at TOWNLEY EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Dallas County's rate of about 77%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, TOWNLEY EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.6%.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), TOWNLEY EL is one campus in the mix.
UPLIFT INFINITY PREP MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around TOWNLEY EL. On composite proficiency, TOWNLEY EL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 36.4%.
The school occupies an urban site.
Trend over the last 7 years. TOWNLEY EL's enrollment has increased 11% since 2018, when it stood at 727 (now 804). Hispanic enrollment moved from 76% to 81% across the same window.
On allk12, members of the TOWNLEY EL community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
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