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Top 5 Best Irving, TX Public Charter Schools (2022-23)
For the 2022-23 school year, there are 7 public charter schools serving 4,405 students in Irving, TX. The top ranked public charter schools in Irving, TX are Universal Academy – Coppell, Great Hearts Irving and Universal Academy. Overall testing rank is based on a school’s combined math and reading proficiency test score ranking.
Irving, TX public charter schools have an average math proficiency score of 61% (versus the Texas public charter school average of 45%), and reading proficiency score of 62% (versus the 44% statewide average). Charter schools in Irving have an average ranking of 10/10, which is in the top 10% of Texas public charter schools.
Minority enrollment is 85% of the student body (majority Asian), which is less than the Texas public charter school average of 87% (majority Hispanic).
Best Irving, TX Public Charter Schools (2022-23)
School (Math and Reading Proficiency)
Location
Grades
Students
Rank: #11.
Universal Academy – Coppell
Charter School
Math: 76% | Reading: 75%
Rank:
Top 5%
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1001 E Sandy Lake Rd
Irving, TX 75062
(972) 393-5834
Grades: PK-12
| 1,662 students
Rank: #22.
Great Hearts Irving
Charter School
Math: 73% | Reading: 73%
Rank:
Top 10%
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3350 W Story Rd
Irving, TX 75038
(469) 759-3030
Grades: K-5
| 753 students
Rank: #33.
Universal Academy
Charter School
Math: 55% | Reading: 51%
Rank:
Top 50%
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2616 N Macarthur Blvd
Irving, TX 75062
(972) 255-1800
Grades: PK-12
| 735 students
Rank: #44.
Manara Leadership Academy
Charter School
Math: 35-39% | Reading: 45-49%
Rank:
Bottom 50%
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8001 Jetstar Dr
Irving, TX 75063
(972) 304-1155
Grades: 7-12
| 166 students
Rank: #55.
Manara Academy
Charter School
Math: 40% | Reading: 42%
Rank:
Bottom 50%
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8201 Tristar Dr
Irving, TX 75063
(972) 304-1155
Grades: PK-6
| 260 students
Rank: #66.
Manara Stem Academy – Arlington
Charter School
Math: 30-34% | Reading: 40-44%
Rank:
Bottom 50%
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6101 S Collins St
Irving, TX 75063
(972) 304-1155
Grades: PK-8
| 233 students
Rank: n/an/a
Great Hearts Irving Upper
Charter School
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3520 World Cup
Irving, TX 75038
(469) 725-0014
Grades: 6-12
| 596 students
[+] Show Closed Public Schools in Irving, Texas
Irving, Texas Public Schools (Closed)
School
Location
Grades
Students
Deaf Ed Elementary School (Closed 2004)
Special Education School
631 Edmondson Dr
Irving, TX 75060
(972) 721-7950
Grades: PK-8
| 28 students
Eagle Advantage Charter El Irv (Closed 2004)
Alternative School
900 N Beltline Rd
Irving, TX 75061
(972) 986-1615
Grades: n/a
| n/a students
Universal Academy – Dallas (Closed 2018)
Charter School
3919 Munger Ave
Irving, TX 75062
(972) 255-1800
Grades: PK-12
| n/a students
Uplift Education – Uplift Triumph Preparatory (Closed 2021)
Charter School
9411 Hargrove St
Irving, TX 75039
(972) 590-5100
Grades: K-3
| 370 students
Wheeler Transitional And Developmental Center (Closed 2015)
Alternative School
1600 E Shady Grove
Irving, TX 75060
(972) 600-3750
Grades: K-5
| n/a students
Wheeler Transitional And Developmental Sec Center (Closed 2015)
Alternative School
1600 Shady Grove
Irving, TX 75060
(972) 600-3750
Grades: 6-12
| n/a students
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Great Hearts Irving, Serving Grades K-12
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Come play, come watch, come cheer! Our fourth annual Cricket Classic will be Saturday, November 12th from 8am-12pm at Cimarron Park.
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Lower School Grandparents’ Day is November 17, 2022! Learn more about how Great-Hearted grandparents can join us for a special celebration in their honor.
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It is truly an honor to welcome you, old friends and new, to the Great Hearts Irving community.
We use the word “community” because it has special meaning at a liberal arts academy. It comes from the Latin word communitas meaning “shared in common.” A community is a fellowship of people who result from the sharing of common attitudes, loves, and goals. C. S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, remarks that, “What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.” We are a special community of friends—students, parents, and faculty—bonded together by our shared love and pursuit of the true, the good, and the beautiful.
Too often, school is a place where a child’s native delight in knowledge fades away with time. At Great Hearts, our primary tool of cultivating knowledge and virtue in our students is the Socratic Method. In this timeless teaching technique, the teacher uses questions and conversation to guide students from what they already know to what they do not yet know in all subjects. Under the guidance and tutelage of the teacher, it is the student who builds his/her own knowledge.
The development of the academic habit of logical inquiry feeds students’ sense of wonder and creates life-long learners. In the end, our communal pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty inspires and shapes students into the best versions of themselves, setting in motion growth that will continue the rest of their lives.
November 12, 2022
Join us for our fourth annual Faculty vs. Parents Cricket Classic! Bring a camp chair and thermos of hot chocolate or tea, cheer on our cricket-loving parents and brave teachers, and enjoy this amazing school community we share.
November 15, 2022
Prospective Great Hearts Irving parents are invited to join us at either campus for an informational night about our school and how to apply. RSVP to let us know you are coming!
November 17, 2022
Great-Hearted grandparents of Lower School scholars are invited to register for a special guided tour during the school day.
Space is very limited, so be sure to register quickly once registration opens at 10am on November 2nd.
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Charter schools and the Russian community in the USA
Even 20 years ago the American system of secondary education was very simple. Parents and children were offered a “choice of two” – to study for free in a public school or for money – in a private one. Everything has changed since the early 1990s. In the United States, the charter school law was passed, which marked the beginning of a successful experiment in the American education system.
“Charter schools are a remarkably good compromise,” says Sergei Soroka, a former Soviet Army officer from Kyiv who is now a restaurateur and founder of four charter schools in California and Florida. “Charter schools combine elements of private and public educational institutions, that is, they are free, like public ones, but they have an incomparably greater degree of freedom in choosing a method and direction of education,” Sergey emphasizes.
Today, the United States is experiencing a real boom in charter schools. It all started with a speech by President Barack Obama, in which he stated that the state intends to support the initiative to open charter schools, as he sees this as an effective way to raise the level of secondary education in the United States. The Governor of the State of New York proposed to remove the quota for the number of charter schools in his state and increase their number from 200 to 450. And the state of Texas came in third in the number of “charters” after California and Arizona.
Charter schools are publicly funded, often with private capital, but no financial burden is placed on students or their parents. Unlike public schools – with a large number of students – charter schools are usually small, only 200-400 students. The main difference is the ability to build your own curriculum and relative freedom in hiring teachers. Supporters of this system believe that such freedom allows charter schools to achieve higher educational outcomes than regular public ones.
And opponents often accuse of selecting the most capable children, due to which charters show better results. However, there is no competitive selection for such schools.
“Apparently, Americans are not satisfied with the current level of school education,” Sergei Soroka says. “I have requests on my desk to help set up charter schools in fifteen states. And these are applications only for the creation of “thematic” Russian schools. What to say about the rest?
Schools organized by Sergei were originally created for the needs of the Russian-speaking population. However, one should not think that the name “Russian charter school” implies an educational institution for the children of Russian immigrants with instruction in their native language. Teaching in such schools is conducted in English, with the exception of Russian language and literature lessons. And yet, despite the in-depth study of the Russian language and culture from the first grade, a variety of children study in these schools.
“You won’t believe it, but fifty percent of the students in the ‘Russian school’ are completely ordinary American children,” Sergei says. “Twenty percent of our students are African-Americans. And they all study Russian language and literature with pleasure. Today’s world is diverse and many-sided. It is not limited to English, Spanish, French and Arabic. Parents and children understand this and therefore come to study with us.”
So, the system is developing. On October 23-24, 2010, New York will host the III International Conference on the topic “Opening Russian Charter Schools and the Preservation of the Russian Language and Culture in the USA”. The organizer of the conference is the American Association of Russian Language, Culture and Education (AARCE) with the support of the government and the embassy of the Russian Federation, as well as the Russkiy Mir Foundation.
U.S. charter school teachers win
In December 2018, it wasn’t just Kosulin School Teachers’ Union that won.
Chicago union teachers won the first “charter” school strike in the United States. According to experts, this victory will have an impact on the entire educational industry in the country.
Under-privatization of education
Charter schools are schools that receive government funding but operate independently of the public school system. An ordinary public school begins to operate under a contract or “charter” and combine elements of a private and public school. On the one hand, students receive a free education, and teachers are freed from bureaucratic obstacles and the control of officials who do not understand anything about pedagogy. On the other hand, this is a step towards the privatization of the school. Private, in essence, institutions use public resources, and profit becomes the determining factor for management.
The strike, which began on December 4, 2018, involved 550 teachers and school workers from 15 charter schools. Already on December 9, the strike ended in victory and the signing of an agreement providing, among other things, for a reduction in the number of classes and an increase in wages.
The salary of a charter school teacher would thus equal that of a public school teacher.
Joanna Trost, striker and English teacher, says the striking teachers wanted to “end privatization and the idea that school is a business.” The teachers’ union is fighting not so much to achieve short-term goals (salary, class capacity), but to show school privatization supporters that there is a force that can resist these intentions and protect children.
For equal pay and safer schools!
Teachers in charter schools work more hours than their public counterparts, but earn an average of about $65,000 a year, or $13,000 less. This leads to a constant outflow of teachers. Having achieved equal pay, teachers stopped this process, which in itself improves the quality of education.
The strikers also achieved a reduction in the working day and an increase in paid time to prepare for classes.
Another success is that the striking charter schools now acquire the status of “shelter schools” (sanctuary schools), i.
e. school administrations are prohibited from cooperating with the migration police. This is especially important given that 90% of students in these schools are Hispanic.
Support staff, teachers’ assistants or so-called paraprofessionals also took part in the strike. These are employees without a teacher’s license who provide a normal educational process: help students with disabilities, act as class teachers, counselors, keep order, etc. Such “paraprofessionals” are paid less than licensed teachers. Now, after the strike was won, the “parateachers” received a salary increase schedule, an increase in paid time and compensation, and a career opportunity up to becoming teachers.
Second win
In 2016, Chicago charter school teachers were already close to a strike, but just 10 minutes before it began, the union agreed to partial concessions from the employer. However, the experience taught teachers not to be afraid and made it easier for union members to vote for the December strike.
Parents with teachers!
Teachers were supported by parents of students. They believe that the management of charter schools has more money to improve the quality of education, but the funds go to the maintenance of managers. For example, Richard Rodriguez, who runs the Chicago Acero Charter School network, which has 8,000 students and whose teachers organized the strike, receives $260,000 a year. That’s more than the head of Chicago Public Schools, which has over 350,000 students, earns. According to the trade union, up to a third of the funds transferred from the budget for the education of each student is spent not on meeting the needs of the class, but on the needs of management. At the same time, in 2018, the Acero network received 29% more revenue than a year earlier.
Parents have opened a Facebook page to support the striking teachers. They organized meetings with both teachers and other parents to spread the word about the union’s demands.
“There was a lot of anger in the parent groups,” says Joan Trost. “Many parents have noted a decline in the quality of education and curtailment of programs, as well as an increase in class sizes.”
First strike but not last
The first charter school strike in the US won. Given the problems of the industry – and the fact that teachers and staff are finally organized, it will not be the last.
The strike took place in 15 Chicago charter schools. In total, there are 34 such schools in this city. Employees of other schools are now preparing for collective action. In several schools, union members have already voted for the strike, but have not set a date yet.
The struggle of teachers is not only about them, union representatives say, but is universal. The fight against privatization, wage inequality and the enrichment of managers at the expense of the quality of education or services, this is what unites teachers from different schools with other workers.