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GARY AND BOBBYE JACK MINSHEW EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 28 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About GARY AND BOBBYE JACK MINSHEW EL
Set in MCKINNEY, Texas, GARY AND BOBBYE JACK MINSHEW EL is a close-knit K-5 school, part of MCKINNEY ISD. It educates 433 students across grades K through 5.
GARY AND BOBBYE JACK MINSHEW EL is one of 33 schools operated by MCKINNEY ISD, a district that educates 23,296 students overall.
On the student-mix side, GARY AND BOBBYE JACK MINSHEW EL records that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 18% Hispanic, 18% Black, 16% Asian, 9% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 54%.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
With demographic context factored in, GARY AND BOBBYE JACK MINSHEW EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.4%.
In the broader community, census data for Collin County shows 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%. GARY AND BOBBYE JACK MINSHEW EL is one of 338 public schools in Collin County (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students).
Nearest neighbor: DOWELL MIDDLE, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GARY AND BOBBYE JACK MINSHEW EL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 65.1%.
GARY AND BOBBYE JACK MINSHEW EL operates from an outer-ring location.
Five-year trend. GARY AND BOBBYE JACK MINSHEW EL's enrollment has decreased 36% since 2018, when it stood at 673 (now 433). White enrollment moved from 50% to 39% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.
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