BLUE RIDGE EL

Set in BLUE RIDGE, Texas, BLUE RIDGE EL is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school, operated by BLUE RIDGE ISD. It caters to 510 students across grades pre-K through 5.

BLUE RIDGE EL is one of 3 schools operated by BLUE RIDGE ISD, a district that serves 1,048 students overall.

On demographics, BLUE RIDGE EL logs that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment; the rest looks like 35% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Collin County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 55% of students at BLUE RIDGE EL qualify 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.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BLUE RIDGE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.8%, the actual is 42.6%, a residual of -7.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Collin County indicate 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. BLUE RIDGE EL is one of 338 public schools in Collin County (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students).

The closest other public school is BLUE RIDGE H S, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around BLUE RIDGE EL. On composite proficiency, BLUE RIDGE EL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.5%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 30%: 392 students in 2018 compared to 510 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 68% to 57% across the same window.

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