CALDWELL EL

CALDWELL EL operates as an intimate elementary-level community in MCKINNEY, Texas, run under MCKINNEY ISD. Current enrollment sits at 409 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so CALDWELL EL sits 21% leaner than that benchmark.

Within MCKINNEY ISD, which oversees 33 schools and 23,296 students, CALDWELL EL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, CALDWELL EL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 21% White, 14% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, CALDWELL EL has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 68% of students at CALDWELL EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Collin County's rate of about 30%.

With demographic context factored in, CALDWELL EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.3%, the actual is 44.3%, a residual of -0.0 points.

In the broader community, Collin County reports that the typical household earns roughly $121,600 per year, about 56% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Collin County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), CALDWELL EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BURKS EL, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CALDWELL EL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 42.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. CALDWELL EL's enrollment has fell 23% since 2018, when it stood at 530 (now 409). Black enrollment moved from 10% to 14% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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