Great Hearts Irving Upper

Size

Of the 2 high schools in Great Hearts Texas, Great Hearts Irving Upper is the largest, with 7.2% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.8 miles away and have a median of 711 students, so Great Hearts Irving Upper is larger than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 6 with 222 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 43, against an average of 134 per grade. This year grade 12 has 81% fewer students than grade 6 (43 against 222). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Asian students are the largest group, at 35.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across Great Hearts Texas (13.5%). White students are next, at 30.7%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

18.9% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 27.5% across Great Hearts Texas and a median of 63.8% for Texas high schools. 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

Great Hearts Irving Upper has 60.04 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 937 students would have about 66.9 teachers, so Great Hearts Irving Upper has 6.9 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other high school is Winfree Academy Charter School (Irving), 0.9 miles away in Winfree Academy Charter Schools. There are 9 high schools within 5 miles and 39 within 10 miles.

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