CAMEY EL

CAMEY EL operates as a tight-knit elementary-level community in THE COLONY, Texas, overseen by LEWISVILLE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 426 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

CAMEY EL is one of 62 schools operated by LEWISVILLE ISD, a district that caters to 47,876 students overall.

On the student-mix side, CAMEY EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 42%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 24% White, 16% Black, 10% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CAMEY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 37.0%, a residual of -13.3 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Denton County shows the typical household earns roughly $111,498 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Denton County's 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), CAMEY EL is one campus in the mix.

THE COLONY H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CAMEY EL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 47.6%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CAMEY EL has shrank 29%, going from 596 students in 2018 to 426 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 36% to 24% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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