Irving Elementary School

Size

Of the 10 elementary schools in Joplin Schools, Irving Elementary School is the 2nd largest, with 5.5% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.6 miles away and have a median of 312 students, so Irving Elementary School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 3 with 82 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 16, against an average of 62 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 64 in kindergarten and 69 in grade 5. It also enrolls 16 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 63.1% of enrollment, about the same share as across Joplin Schools (65.6%). Hispanic students are next, at 13.1%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

66.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 66.2% across Joplin Schools and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 33.2% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Irving Elementary School has 38.76 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.2 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 434 students would have about 35.3 teachers, so Irving Elementary School has 3.5 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri elementary schools (12.3).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Cecil Floyd Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. There are 9 elementary schools within 5 miles and 16 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.