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DAVIS EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About DAVIS EL
DAVIS EL, a medium-sized elementary-level community in ROYSE CITY, Texas, operated by ROYSE CITY ISD, serves 616 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.
DAVIS EL is one of 11 schools operated by ROYSE CITY ISD, a district that works with 10,034 students overall.
On the student-mix side, DAVIS EL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 40% White, 14% Black, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.
On the resource side, DAVIS EL shows 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Collin County's rate of about 30%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DAVIS EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.7%; this one delivers 46.5%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Collin County) records that median household income runs about $121,600, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Collin County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), of which DAVIS EL is one.
RUTH CHERRY EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DAVIS EL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.9%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 11%: 553 students in 2018 compared to 616 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 53% to 40%. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.
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