JAMES A MONACO

JAMES A MONACO operates as a mid-tier primary school in AUBREY, Texas, part of AUBREY ISD. Current enrollment sits at 539 students spanning grades K through 5.

AUBREY ISD comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,480 students; JAMES A MONACO is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JAMES A MONACO lists that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 22% Black, 20% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Denton County as a whole is about 57% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 36% of students at JAMES A MONACO qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JAMES A MONACO falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 58.2%; this one comes in at 40.7%, -17.5 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Denton County put the typical household earns roughly $111,498 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Denton County runs 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), of which JAMES A MONACO is one.

The closest other public school is PROVIDENCE EL, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JAMES A MONACO at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 35.2%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. JAMES A MONACO's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 551 (now 539). White enrollment moved from 65% to 45% across the same window.

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