GLEN OAKS EL

GLEN OAKS EL is a mid-sized elementary-level community in MCKINNEY, Texas, overseen by MCKINNEY ISD. The school hosts 478 students in grades K through 5.

GLEN OAKS EL is one of 33 schools operated by MCKINNEY ISD, a district that hosts 23,296 students overall.

On demographics, GLEN OAKS EL records that White students make up the majority at 69%; the rest breaks down as 14% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Asian, 4% Black. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 54% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 9% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Collin County (around 30%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GLEN OAKS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.9%, the actual is 69.3%, a residual of -0.6 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Collin County shows the typical household earns roughly $121,600 per year, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Collin County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), of which GLEN OAKS EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: DOWELL MIDDLE, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GLEN OAKS EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GLEN OAKS EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 64.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GLEN OAKS EL has showed little movement, going from 477 students in 2018 to 478 in 2025.

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