JESSE MCGOWEN EL

Set in MCKINNEY, Texas, JESSE MCGOWEN EL is a medium-sized elementary-level community, one of the schools within MCKINNEY ISD. It serves 570 students across grades K through 5.

JESSE MCGOWEN EL is one of 33 schools operated by MCKINNEY ISD, a district that instructs 23,296 students overall.

On demographics, JESSE MCGOWEN EL records that the most-represented group is White (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 20% Black, 12% Asian, 8% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 54%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 36% of students at JESSE MCGOWEN EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JESSE MCGOWEN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.9%, the actual is 49.2%, a residual of -8.7 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Collin County shows 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%. In all, Collin County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), of which JESSE MCGOWEN EL is one.

ARTHUR H MCNEIL EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, JESSE MCGOWEN EL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 61.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. JESSE MCGOWEN EL's enrollment has ticked down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 669 (now 570). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 50% to 35%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.