ALDRIDGE EL

ALDRIDGE EL is one of the mid-sized elementary-level communitys in RICHARDSON, Texas, run under PLANO ISD, with 462 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

ALDRIDGE EL is one of 73 schools operated by PLANO ISD, a district that works with 46,612 students overall.

On demographics, ALDRIDGE EL shows that the largest single group is White at 43%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 17% Hispanic, 17% Asian, 13% Black, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 54% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, ALDRIDGE EL records 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 22% of students at ALDRIDGE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, ALDRIDGE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.1%, the actual is 57.8%, a residual of -6.3 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Collin County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $121,600 per year, roughly 56% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Collin County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), ALDRIDGE EL is one campus in the mix.

CANYON CREEK EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ALDRIDGE EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ALDRIDGE EL at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 56.4%.

ALDRIDGE EL operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 25%: 615 students in 2018 compared to 462 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 26% to 17% across the same window.

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