DAN CHRISTIE EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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%.
About DAN CHRISTIE EL
Set in AUBREY, Texas, DAN CHRISTIE EL is a sizable elementary campus, run under PROSPER ISD. It enrolls 1,016 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 96% bigger than typical.
PROSPER ISD runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 31,651 students. DAN CHRISTIE EL is one of those campuses.
Demographically, DAN CHRISTIE EL logs that 53% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 17% Black, 13% White, 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 11% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting DAN CHRISTIE EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 10% of students at DAN CHRISTIE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Denton County's rate of about 35%.
With demographic context factored in, DAN CHRISTIE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.4%, the actual is 57.6%, a residual of -11.8 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Denton County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $111,498 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Denton County runs 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), of which DAN CHRISTIE EL is one.
The closest other public school is SANDBROCK RANCH EL, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DAN CHRISTIE EL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 47.5%.
DAN CHRISTIE EL operates from a commuter-belt location.
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