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GULLEDGE EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 79 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 26 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 GULLEDGE EL
GULLEDGE EL is one of the medium-sized K-5 schools in PLANO, Texas, run under PLANO ISD, with 692 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 33% bigger than the state mean of about 519.
GULLEDGE EL is one of 73 schools operated by PLANO ISD, a district that serves 46,612 students overall.
Looking at the student body, GULLEDGE EL lists that the largest single group is Asian, at 65% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 15% White, 9% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.
On the resource side, GULLEDGE EL logs 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Collin County's rate of about 30%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GULLEDGE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.1%, the actual is 77.0%, a residual of +8.9 points.
Around the school, 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 the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Collin County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), of which GULLEDGE EL is one.
The closest other public school is JASPER H S, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GULLEDGE EL. On composite proficiency, GULLEDGE EL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 67.3%.
GULLEDGE EL operates from a metropolitan location.
Trend over the last 7 years. GULLEDGE EL's enrollment has ticked up 5% since 2018, when it stood at 662 (now 692). Asian enrollment moved from 47% to 65% across the same window.
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