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ALBERT & IOLA LEE DAVIS MALVERN EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 10 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ALBERT & IOLA LEE DAVIS MALVERN EL
ALBERT & IOLA LEE DAVIS MALVERN EL is one of the tight-knit K-5 schools in MCKINNEY, Texas, overseen by MCKINNEY ISD, with 415 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 20% below the state mean of about 519.
MCKINNEY ISD runs 33 schools in total, collectively educating 23,296 students. ALBERT & IOLA LEE DAVIS MALVERN EL is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, ALBERT & IOLA LEE DAVIS MALVERN EL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 55% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 21% Black, 14% White, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, ALBERT & IOLA LEE DAVIS MALVERN EL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Collin County runs at roughly 30%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, ALBERT & IOLA LEE DAVIS MALVERN EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.2%.
Across the wider county, Collin County reports that median household earnings sit near $121,600, about 56% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ALBERT & IOLA LEE DAVIS MALVERN EL is one of 338 public schools in Collin County (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students).
Nearest neighbor: MCKINNEY H S, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ALBERT & IOLA LEE DAVIS MALVERN EL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ALBERT & IOLA LEE DAVIS MALVERN EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.1%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. ALBERT & IOLA LEE DAVIS MALVERN EL's enrollment has edged down 20% since 2018, when it stood at 522 (now 415). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.
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