UNIVERSAL ACADEMY

Set in IRVING, Texas, UNIVERSAL ACADEMY is a mid-sized combined-grade school, run under UNIVERSAL ACADEMY. It educates 623 students across grades pre-K through 12. That puts it 28% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 485 students.

UNIVERSAL ACADEMY comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 2,036 students; UNIVERSAL ACADEMY is among them.

In terms of who attends, UNIVERSAL ACADEMY shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%. The remainder breaks down as 25% Black, 5% Asian, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.7:1, putting UNIVERSAL ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, UNIVERSAL ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.3%, the actual is 37.6%, a residual of +0.3 points.

In the broader community, Dallas County reports that median household earnings sit near $76,547, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), UNIVERSAL ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

FARINE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts UNIVERSAL ACADEMY at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 33.2%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. UNIVERSAL ACADEMY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. UNIVERSAL ACADEMY's enrollment has ticked down 20% since 2018, when it stood at 777 (now 623). Class-load math has fell: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.