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How has JIM AND BETTY HUGHES EL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
839
Elementary
DISTRICT 828 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PROSPER ISD·NCES 483600013232
Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School
1551 PRESTWICK HOLLOW DR, MCKINNEY, TX 75071 · (469) 219-2230 · Collin County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL839 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 45% of Texas public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
66 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
8%
69 students
DISTRICT 7% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 1 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 109 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 131 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 140 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 154 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 143 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 161 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (109) is 32% smaller than its 5th grade class (161).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
69.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +21.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
64.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +2.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 64 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 21 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 41.0% | 28.0% | 20.0% | 11.0% |
| Mathematics | 37.0% | 27.0% | 18.0% | 18.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 69.0% | 64.0% |
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 64.0% |
| 2023-24 | 67.0% | 62.0% |
| 2022-23 | 68.0% | 72.0% |
| 2021-22 | 65.0% | 71.0% |
| 2020-21 | 48.0% | 62.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
58.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.2%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School
Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School's state test result (58.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School this school | 839 | 8.2% | 58.3% |
| Lilyana Elementary School PROSPER | 982 | 5.3% | 68.0% |
| Tarvin Elementary School LEANDER | 838 | 5.3% | 63.8% |
| Gunstream Elementary School FRISCO | 725 | 11.7% | 67.3% |
| Lois Lindsey Elementary School MCKINNEY | 792 | 14.3% | 71.2% |
| Brenda Calhoun Early Childhood School MCKINNEY | 744 | 9.3% | N/A |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Collin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.3% | #862 of 4,401 | #90 of 164 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #720 of 4,466 ▼ 51 | #70 of 165 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #794 of 4,466 ▼ 37 | #80 of 165 ▲ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.5pp | #816 of 3,998 | #37 of 154 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 839 | #326 of 4,938 | #11 of 181 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #644 of 4,622 | #51 of 177 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.6% | #919 of 4,628 | #114 of 177 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 8.2% | #4,694 of 4,789 | #161 of 177 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.1% | #1,682 of 2,838 | #61 of 94 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
839
+74 (+10%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 17.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 839 | 66 | 12.7:1 | 8% (69) |
| 2023-24 | 854 | 57.2 | 14.9:1 | 9% (75) |
| 2022-23 | 819 | 56.5 | 14.5:1 | 10% (83) |
| 2020-21 | 765 | 44 | 17.4:1 | 9% (69) |
| 2017-18 | 977 | 59.9 | 16.3:1 | 10% (100) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (977 to 839); teachers up 10% (59.9 to 66).
About Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School
Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School is a public large elementary school in MCKINNEY, Texas. The latest federal count shows 839 students in pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in Texas is about 519 students, so this school is 62% larger than average.
In PROSPER ISD, 27 schools enroll a combined 31,651 students.
Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School's enrollment is 53% Asian. The remaining shares are 20% White, 8% Hispanic, 8% Black, and 8% multiracial. Census estimates put the Asian share of Collin County's population at about 19%. Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School has a diversity index of 66%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school reported 66 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 12.7:1. The 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas is higher than this school's figure. Eligible students account for 8% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. The average for public schools in Collin County is 30%.
allk12 grades Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School a B-. The grade compares the school only with Texas public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
A school with Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School's lunch-eligibility share in Texas is predicted to score 70.2%. Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School scores 58.3%, 11.9 points below that line.
According to the American Community Survey, in Collin County, median household income is about $121,600, roughly 56% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School is one of 338 public schools in Collin County, which together enroll about 227,575 students.
The next-closest public school is Rock Hill High School, about 0.6 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School. Of 4 schools in the immediate area with test results, Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 765 in 2020-21 and 839 in 2024-25, a increase of 74 students. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 17.4:1 to 12.7:1.
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Collin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,163,337
Census ACS
Median income
$121,600
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
56%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
338
227,575 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PROSPER ISD
- Prosper High SchoolHigh · 3,753 students
- Rock Hill High SchoolHigh · 2,442 students
- Walnut Grove High SchoolHigh · 2,268 students
- Reynolds Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,762 students
- William Rushing Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,691 students
- Lorene Rogers Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,633 students
Other schools in MCKINNEY
- McKinney High SchoolHigh · 2,668 students
- McKinney Boyd High SchoolHigh · 2,547 students
- McKinney North High SchoolHigh · 2,387 students
- Emerson High SchoolHigh · 1,844 students
- Imagine International Academy of North TexasCombined · 1,445 students
- Dr Jack Cockrill Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,210 students
Nearby schools
- Rock Hill High School0.6 mi · 2,442
- Daniel L Jones Middle School0.6 mi · 1,286
- Brenda Calhoun Early Childhood School0.6 mi · 744
- Lorene Rogers Middle School0.6 mi · 1,633
- R Steve Folsom Elementary School0.9 mi · 611
- Jack and June Furr Elementary School1.2 mi · 790
Frequently asked questions
About Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary SchoolHow large is Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School?
Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School enrolls approximately 839 students in grades PK-05.
Is Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School have?
Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School employs 66 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School?
Student demographics at Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School are roughly 20% White, 8% Hispanic, 8% Black, 53% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School?
Jim and Betty Hughes Elementary School is overseen by PROSPER ISD in Collin County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.