GODWIN EL

As a reasonably sized primary school in PRINCETON, Texas, GODWIN EL works with 469 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by PRINCETON ISD.

Across the 14 schools in PRINCETON ISD (9,956 students total), GODWIN EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, GODWIN EL shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 28% Black, 24% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 68% of students at GODWIN EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Collin County runs at roughly 30%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GODWIN EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.4%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Collin County indicate 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%. GODWIN EL is one of 338 public schools in Collin County (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students).

Nearest neighbor: LACY EL, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, GODWIN EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.3%.

GODWIN EL operates from a town-based location.

Over the past 7-year window. GODWIN EL's enrollment has decreased 15% since 2018, when it stood at 553 (now 469). The Black share of enrollment expanded from 3% to 28% over that span.

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