ANDREWS EL

ANDREWS EL is a cozy elementary school in PLANO, Texas, one of the schools within PLANO ISD. The school works with 405 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 22% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

PLANO ISD comprises 73 schools with combined enrollment of 46,612 students; ANDREWS EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, ANDREWS EL lists that 57% of the student body identifies as Asian. Beyond that, the school lists 20% White, 9% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, ANDREWS EL lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 12% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Collin County's rate of about 30%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ANDREWS EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 80.9%.

In the surrounding community, Collin County reports that median household earnings sit near $121,600, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Collin County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), of which ANDREWS EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: BEVERLY EL, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ANDREWS EL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 74.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ANDREWS EL has ticked down 31%, going from 591 students in 2018 to 405 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share fell from 68% to 57%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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