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Enrollment
491
Elementary
DISTRICT 475 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MCKINNEY ISD·NCES 482985009166
Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School
2511 CATTLEMAN DR, MCKINNEY, TX 75070 · (469) 302-5100 · Collin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL491 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 30% of Texas public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
12.0:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
347 students
DISTRICT 37% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 88 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 94 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (88) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (84).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School→Scott Morgan Johnson Middle School→McKinney North High School
Based on published attendance-zone data from MCKINNEY ISD. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
37.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +1.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
33.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +4.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 1 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 12.0% | 25.0% | 26.0% | 37.0% |
| Mathematics | 8.0% | 25.0% | 27.0% | 40.0% |
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 | 37.0% | 33.0% |
| 2024-25 | 45.0% | 33.0% |
| 2023-24 | 47.0% | 35.0% |
| 2022-23 | 34.0% | 31.0% |
| 2021-22 | 46.0% | 44.0% |
| 2020-21 | 36.0% | 29.0% |
% 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
38.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.5%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School
Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School's state test result (38.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School this school | 491 | 70.7% | 38.4% |
| Rowlett Elementary School ROWLETT | 486 | 68.9% | 32.3% |
| Furneaux Elementary School CARROLLTON | 415 | 70.4% | 53.6% |
| Suzanna Dickinson Montessori Academy GRAND PRAIRIE | 421 | 72.4% | 30.3% |
| Red Elementary School HOUSTON | 530 | 67.4% | 50.0% |
| Remington Point Elementary School FORT WORTH | 511 | 66.3% | 38.0% |
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 Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Collin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.4% | #2,794 of 4,401 | #143 of 164 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #3,681 of 4,466 ▼ 195 | #152 of 165 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #3,934 of 4,466 ▼ 888 | #160 of 165 ▼ 13 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.5pp | #2,503 of 3,998 | #78 of 154 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 491 | #2,624 of 4,938 | #110 of 181 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.0:1 | #342 of 4,622 | #33 of 177 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.6% | #1,013 of 4,628 | #119 of 177 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.7% | #2,523 of 4,789 | #17 of 177 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.8% | #2,413 of 2,838 | #84 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
491
+61 (+14%) vs 2020
+3% since 2010-11, when it was 479
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
was 11.0:1
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 | 491 | 41 | 12.0:1 | 71% (347) |
| 2023-24 | 473 | 42.1 | 11.3:1 | 73% (347) |
| 2022-23 | 477 | 38.5 | 12.4:1 | 69% (329) |
| 2020-21 | 430 | 39 | 11.0:1 | 69% (296) |
| 2017-18 | 521 | 38 | 13.7:1 | 61% (320) |
| 2015-16 | 547 | 42 | 13.0:1 | 56% (307) |
| 2010-11 | 479 | 33 | 14.5:1 | 39% (189) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (521 to 491); teachers up 8% (38 to 41).
About Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School
Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Texas, with an address in MCKINNEY. A total of 491 students attend the school, which covers kindergarten through 5.
Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School is one school in MCKINNEY ISD, a system of 33 schools with 23,296 students.
A majority of students at Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School, 54%, are Hispanic. The remaining shares are 18% Black, 17% White, 7% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Collin County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. The chance that two students picked at random at Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 65%.
Federal data list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers at Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School in 2024-25, for a ratio of 12.0:1. Among elementary schools in Texas, the typical ratio is 15.1:1. The lunch program counts 71% of students at Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Public schools in Collin County average 30%.
The allk12 Grade for Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School is C. Compared with Texas public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 30% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School would score about 43.5%. It scores 38.4%, 5.1 points below that figure.
Collin County has these Census figures: median household income is about $121,600, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 56% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The public schools of Collin County number 338 and enroll about 227,575.
Serenity High is the public school closest to Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School, about 0.5 miles away. Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School ranks 6th of 6 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 38.4% against a local average of 61.6%.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School went from 430 students to 491.
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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 MCKINNEY ISD
- McKinney High SchoolHigh · 2,668 students
- McKinney Boyd High SchoolHigh · 2,547 students
- McKinney North High SchoolHigh · 2,387 students
- Dr Jack Cockrill Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,210 students
- Scott Morgan Johnson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,108 students
- Faubion Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,033 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
- Serenity High0.5 mi · 3
- McKinney North High School0.5 mi · 2,387
- Scott Morgan Johnson Middle School0.9 mi · 1,108
- Dr Jack Cockrill Middle School1.4 mi · 1,210
- Herman Lawson Early Childhood School1.5 mi · 606
- J J Alternative Education Program1.5 mi · 4
Frequently asked questions
About Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School?
Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School enrolls approximately 491 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School serve?
Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School have?
Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School employs 41 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School?
Student demographics at Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School are roughly 17% White, 54% Hispanic, 18% Black, 4% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School?
Jose De Jesus and Maria Luisa Vega Elementary School is overseen by MCKINNEY ISD in Collin County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.