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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at FRANCES E NORTON EL this year?
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Enrollment
622
Elementary
DISTRICT 627 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALLEN ISD·NCES 480789007552
Frances E Norton Elementary School
1120 NEWPORT DR, ALLEN, TX 75013 · (972) 396-6918 · Collin County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL622 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 93% of Texas public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-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
15.4:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
10%
60 students
DISTRICT 24% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 88 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 103 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 91 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 92 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (88) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (92).
Student demographics
68%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
82.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +33.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
78.0%
TX avg 45.3% . -4.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 78 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 33 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 58.0% | 24.0% | 10.0% | 8.0% |
| Mathematics | 49.0% | 29.0% | 14.0% | 8.0% |
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 | 82.0% | 78.0% |
| 2024-25 | 85.0% | 79.0% |
| 2023-24 | 79.0% | 78.0% |
| 2022-23 | 70.0% | 73.0% |
| 2021-22 | 73.0% | 82.0% |
| 2020-21 | 49.0% | 82.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
77.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.6%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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%.
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 Frances E Norton Elementary School
Frances E Norton Elementary School's state test result (77.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frances E Norton Elementary School this school | 622 | 9.6% | 77.5% |
| Curtsinger Elementary School FRISCO | 623 | 12.4% | 71.8% |
| Bledsoe Elementary School FRISCO | 663 | 7.2% | 68.9% |
| Newman Elementary School FRISCO | 594 | 6.7% | 77.0% |
| Scott Elementary School MCKINNEY | 587 | 11.8% | 72.2% |
| Jenny Preston Elementary School ALLEN | 726 | 9.4% | 77.9% |
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 Frances E Norton Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Collin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.5% | #136 of 4,401 | #24 of 164 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #172 of 4,466 ▼ 15 | #25 of 165 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #186 of 4,466 ▼ 71 | #19 of 165 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +8.5pp | #1,633 of 3,998 | #43 of 154 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 622 | #1,443 of 4,938 | #65 of 181 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #2,809 of 4,622 | #120 of 177 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.9% | #723 of 4,628 | #102 of 177 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 9.6% | #4,660 of 4,789 | #153 of 177 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +21.2% | #384 of 1,307 | #19 of 54 |
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
622
-12 (-2%) vs 2020
+16% since 2000-01, when it was 536
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 14.7:1
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 | 622 | 40.4 | 15.4:1 | 10% (60) |
| 2023-24 | 651 | 41.1 | 15.8:1 | 12% (79) |
| 2022-23 | 731 | 43.6 | 16.8:1 | 14% (103) |
| 2020-21 | 634 | 43 | 14.7:1 | 18% (111) |
| 2017-18 | 513 | 37.7 | 13.6:1 | 7% (34) |
| 2015-16 | 540 | 39 | 13.8:1 | 7% (40) |
| 2010-11 | 549 | 36 | 15.3:1 | 6% (32) |
| 2000-01 | 536 | 34 | 15.8:1 | 2% (13) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Frances E Norton Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 21% (513 to 622); teachers up 7% (37.7 to 40.4).
About Frances E Norton Elementary School
Frances E Norton Elementary School is an elementary school in ALLEN, Texas, according to federal school records. The school runs kindergarten through 6 and enrolls 622 students.
The 23 schools in ALLEN ISD enroll 20,838 students altogether, Frances E Norton Elementary School among them.
No group is above 50% at Frances E Norton Elementary School; the largest is Asian, at 41%. After that, the student body is 37% White, 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 6% Black. Among all residents of Collin County, the Asian share is about 19%. The diversity index for Frances E Norton Elementary School is 68%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Classroom staffing at Frances E Norton Elementary School totals 40.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.4:1. The 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas is close to this figure. Federal data show 10% of students (60) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Collin County average 30%.
Frances E Norton Elementary School holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 93% of Texas public elementary schools.
In Texas, Frances E Norton Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 77.5% actual against a predicted 69.6%.
For the population of Collin County, the median household earns about $121,600 a year, about 56% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Frances E Norton Elementary School shares Collin County with 337 other public schools.
Ereckson Middle School sits about 0.8 miles from Frances E Norton Elementary School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Frances E Norton Elementary School is 3rd on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around Frances E Norton Elementary School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show 634 students in 2020-21 and 622 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%.
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Collin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,163,337
Census ACS
Median income
$121,600
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
56%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
338
227,575 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ALLEN ISD
- Allen High SchoolHigh · 5,206 students
- Lowery Freshman CenterHigh · 1,674 students
- Walter & Lois Curtis Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,323 students
- Ereckson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,263 students
- Lois Lindsey Elementary SchoolElementary · 792 students
- Dr E T Boon Elementary SchoolElementary · 789 students
Other schools in ALLEN
- Allen High SchoolHigh · 5,206 students
- Lowery Freshman CenterHigh · 1,674 students
- Walter & Lois Curtis Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,323 students
- Ereckson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,263 students
- Dr E T Boon Elementary SchoolElementary · 789 students
- Carlena Chandler Elementary SchoolElementary · 731 students
Nearby schools
- Ereckson Middle School0.8 mi · 1,263
- Flossie Floyd Green Elementary School1.0 mi · 553
- Rasor Elementary School1.2 mi · 351
- Dr E T Boon Elementary School1.2 mi · 789
- Alton Boyd Elementary School1.6 mi · 393
- Kerr Elementary School1.7 mi · 654
Frequently asked questions
About Frances E Norton Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Frances E Norton Elementary School?
Frances E Norton Elementary School enrolls approximately 622 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Frances E Norton Elementary School serve?
Frances E Norton Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Frances E Norton Elementary School?
Approximately 15.4:1 students per teacher at Frances E Norton Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Frances E Norton Elementary School?
Student demographics at Frances E Norton Elementary School are roughly 37% White, 8% Hispanic, 6% Black, 41% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Frances E Norton Elementary School in?
Frances E Norton Elementary School is part of ALLEN ISD.
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