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Does CORA SPENCER EL have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
653
Elementary
DISTRICT 507 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MANSFIELD ISD·NCES 482892011337
Cora Spencer Elementary School
3140 S CAMINO LAGOS, GRAND PRAIRIE, TX 75054 · (817) 299-6680 · Tarrant County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL653 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 90% of Texas public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
228 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 64 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 101 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 126 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 109 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 120 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 133 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (101) is 24% smaller than its 4th grade class (133).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
72.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +21.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
71.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +7.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 71 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 21 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 46.0% | 26.0% | 15.0% | 13.0% |
| Mathematics | 41.0% | 30.0% | 14.0% | 15.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 72.0% | 71.0% |
| 2024-25 | 77.0% | 75.0% |
| 2023-24 | 71.0% | 70.0% |
| 2022-23 | 74.0% | 76.0% |
| 2021-22 | 74.0% | 71.0% |
| 2020-21 | 51.0% | 64.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
73.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.8%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 59% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Cora Spencer Elementary School
Cora Spencer Elementary School's state test result (73.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cora Spencer Elementary School this school | 653 | 34.9% | 73.0% |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder Elementary School PEARLAND | 678 | 34.2% | 61.6% |
| Terrell Elementary School RICHMOND | 578 | 38.6% | 67.5% |
| Anna May Daulton Elementary School GRAND PRAIRIE | 648 | 25.8% | 70.3% |
| Brenda Norwood Elementary School MANSFIELD | 845 | 30.9% | 64.3% |
| Judy Miller Elementary School MANSFIELD | 491 | 38.7% | 51.6% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Cora Spencer Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Tarrant County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #233 of 4,401 | #14 of 330 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #387 of 4,466 ▼ 120 | #26 of 339 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #625 of 4,466 ▼ 199 | #35 of 339 ▼ 11 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.5pp | #806 of 3,998 | #81 of 320 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 653 | #1,231 of 4,938 | #63 of 353 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #3,225 of 4,622 | #272 of 348 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.9% | #248 of 4,628 | #43 of 348 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.9% | #4,101 of 4,789 | #296 of 341 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.3% | #1,928 of 2,838 | #168 of 242 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
653
-34 (-5%) vs 2020
+42% since 2010-11, when it was 461
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 15.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 653 | 41 | 15.9:1 | 35% (228) |
| 2023-24 | 657 | 42 | 15.6:1 | 31% (203) |
| 2022-23 | 629 | 42.1 | 14.9:1 | 33% (208) |
| 2020-21 | 687 | 45 | 15.3:1 | 22% (153) |
| 2017-18 | 736 | 45.1 | 16.3:1 | 15% (113) |
| 2015-16 | 763 | 45 | 17.0:1 | 14% (108) |
| 2010-11 | 461 | 33 | 14.0:1 | 18% (84) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cora Spencer Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (736 to 653); teachers down 9% (45.1 to 41).
About Cora Spencer Elementary School
Cora Spencer Elementary School operates as a mid-sized elementary school in GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas. It had 653 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 4. Elementary schools in Texas have about 519 students on average; enrollment here is 26% higher.
Across its 47 schools, MANSFIELD ISD enrolls 35,354 students. Cora Spencer Elementary School is one of those schools.
The biggest share of students at Cora Spencer Elementary School, 42%, is Black. The rest of enrollment is 20% White, 17% Hispanic, 16% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Census estimates put the Black share of Tarrant County's population at about 18%. The diversity index for Cora Spencer Elementary School is 73%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Teacher count: 41 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 15.9:1. Compared with the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas, this school's ratio is higher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 35%. Among public schools in Tarrant County, the average eligibility rate is 63%.
Cora Spencer Elementary School holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 90% of Texas public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Cora Spencer Elementary School would score about 58.8%. It scores 73.0%, a top-10% result among Texas schools on BeatsExpectations.
American Community Survey estimates for Tarrant County show that median household income comes to about $84,207, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 35% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 8%. The county's public schools total 639, with about 385,835 students.
Cora Spencer Elementary School is about 0.3 miles from Mary Lillard I S, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Cora Spencer Elementary School ranks 2nd of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 73.0% against a local average of 61.7%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
The school's student count decreased 5% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
People can post here about special education services, counseling, and support programs and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Tarrant County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,167,390
Census ACS
Median income
$84,207
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
639
385,835 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MANSFIELD ISD
- Mansfield Lake Ridge High SchoolHigh · 2,751 students
- Mansfield Legacy High SchoolHigh · 2,568 students
- Mansfield High SchoolHigh · 2,552 students
- Mansfield Timberview High SchoolHigh · 1,788 students
- Mansfield Summit High SchoolHigh · 1,772 students
- Charlene McKinzey Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,043 students
Other schools in GRAND PRAIRIE
- South Grand Prairie High SchoolHigh · 3,239 students
- Grand Prairie High SchoolHigh · 2,817 students
- John A Dubiski Career High SchoolHigh · 1,574 students
- Bill Arnold Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,081 students
- Advantage AcademyCombined · 972 students
- Iltexas Grand Prairie Elementary SchoolElementary · 936 students
Nearby schools
- Mary Lillard I S0.3 mi · 740
- Danny Jones Middle School0.4 mi · 812
- Mansfield Lake Ridge High School0.7 mi · 2,751
- Judy Miller Elementary School1.0 mi · 491
- Newman International Academy of Mansfield1.6 mi · 233
- Anna May Daulton Elementary School1.8 mi · 648
Frequently asked questions
About Cora Spencer Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Cora Spencer Elementary School?
Cora Spencer Elementary School enrolls approximately 653 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does Cora Spencer Elementary School serve?
Cora Spencer Elementary School serves grades PK-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cora Spencer Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Cora Spencer Elementary School is approximately 15.9:1 (41 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Cora Spencer Elementary School?
Student demographics at Cora Spencer Elementary School are roughly 20% White, 17% Hispanic, 42% Black, 16% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Cora Spencer Elementary School in?
Cora Spencer Elementary School is part of MANSFIELD ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.