EARL & LOTTIE WOLFORD EL

EARL & LOTTIE WOLFORD EL is a K-5 school of close-knit scale in MCKINNEY, Texas, part of MCKINNEY ISD, works with 389 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so EARL & LOTTIE WOLFORD EL sits 25% smaller than that benchmark.

EARL & LOTTIE WOLFORD EL is one of 33 schools operated by MCKINNEY ISD, a district that educates 23,296 students overall.

In terms of who attends, EARL & LOTTIE WOLFORD EL reports that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 17% Hispanic, 11% Black, 9% multiracial, 5% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting EARL & LOTTIE WOLFORD EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 16% of students at EARL & LOTTIE WOLFORD EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Collin County (around 30%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), EARL & LOTTIE WOLFORD EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.8%, the actual is 75.8%, a residual of +9.0 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Collin County put the typical household earns roughly $121,600 per year, about 56% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 EARL & LOTTIE WOLFORD EL is one.

The closest other public school is LEONARD EVANS JR MIDDLE, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, EARL & LOTTIE WOLFORD EL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 63.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. EARL & LOTTIE WOLFORD EL's enrollment has shrank 18% since 2018, when it stood at 476 (now 389). Over the same period, the White share fell from 69% to 57%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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