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CURTSINGER EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 32 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 15 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 CURTSINGER EL
CURTSINGER EL is an elementary school of reasonably sized scale in FRISCO, Texas, one of the schools within FRISCO ISD, works with 623 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 20% bigger than the state mean of about 519.
FRISCO ISD comprises 76 schools with combined enrollment of 65,289 students; CURTSINGER EL is among them.
Looking at the student body, CURTSINGER EL shows that the most-represented group is Asian (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 36% White, 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 19% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 12% of students at CURTSINGER EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Collin County (around 30%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CURTSINGER EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 70.1%.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Collin County put median household income runs about $121,600, roughly 56% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CURTSINGER EL is one of 338 public schools in Collin County (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students).
Nearest neighbor: TALLEY EL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CURTSINGER EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CURTSINGER EL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 77.7%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 18%: 757 students in 2018 compared to 623 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 6% to 11%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.
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