CANYON CREEK EL

Located at 2100 COPPER RDG DR, in RICHARDSON, Texas, CANYON CREEK EL is a low-enrollment elementary school that teaches 374 students (grades pre-K through 6), one of the schools within RICHARDSON ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 28% leaner than the state mean of about 519.

RICHARDSON ISD comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 38,526 students; CANYON CREEK EL is among them.

On demographics, CANYON CREEK EL shows that 67% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 7% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 35% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 8% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, CANYON CREEK EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.4%, the actual is 72.7%, a residual of +2.3 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), CANYON CREEK EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is RICHARDSON NORTH J H, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CANYON CREEK EL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 61.3%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CANYON CREEK EL has climbed 26%, going from 296 students in 2018 to 374 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 72% to 67% across the same window.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.