CARLENA CHANDLER EL

Located at 1000 WATER OAK, in ALLEN, Texas, CARLENA CHANDLER EL is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school that works with 731 students (grades K through 6), overseen by ALLEN ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so CARLENA CHANDLER EL sits 41% above that benchmark.

CARLENA CHANDLER EL is one of 23 schools operated by ALLEN ISD, a district that teaches 20,838 students overall.

In terms of who attends, CARLENA CHANDLER EL shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 27% White, 15% Asian, 10% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Collin County runs at roughly 30%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CARLENA CHANDLER EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.9%, the actual is 62.1%, a residual of +5.2 points.

In the area at large, census data for Collin County shows 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. Across Collin County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), CARLENA CHANDLER EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BOLIN EL, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CARLENA CHANDLER EL comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 67.6%.

CARLENA CHANDLER EL operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 8%: 678 students in 2018 compared to 731 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 8% to 45% across the same window.

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