JAMES EL

JAMES EL, a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in PRINCETON, Texas, one of the schools within PRINCETON ISD, enrolls 477 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Within PRINCETON ISD, which oversees 14 schools and 9,956 students, JAMES EL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, JAMES EL logs that 68% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 22% White, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting JAMES EL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Collin County runs at roughly 30%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Collin County) reports that median household earnings sit near $121,600, roughly 56% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. JAMES EL is one of 338 public schools in Collin County (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students).

Nearest neighbor: MATTEI MIDDLE, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

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