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COMSTOCK EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 73 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 25 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 23 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About COMSTOCK EL
Located at 7152 SILVERADO TRAIL, in MCKINNEY, Texas, COMSTOCK EL is a mid-tier primary school that works with 680 students (grades K through 4), operated by FRISCO ISD. That puts it 31% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
Across the 76 schools in FRISCO ISD (65,289 students total), COMSTOCK EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, COMSTOCK EL logs that 46% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 28% White, 10% Black, 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 19% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 8% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Collin County runs at roughly 30%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, COMSTOCK EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.2%, the actual is 73.8%, a residual of +3.6 points.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Collin County) reports that median household income runs about $121,600, about 56% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. COMSTOCK EL is one of 338 public schools in Collin County (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students).
Nearest neighbor: SCOGGINS MIDDLE, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, COMSTOCK EL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 68.2%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Trend over the last 7 years. COMSTOCK EL's enrollment has edged down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 732 (now 680). The Asian share of enrollment climbed from 25% to 46% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.
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