JOSE DE JESUS AND MARIA LUISA VEGA EL

JOSE DE JESUS AND MARIA LUISA VEGA EL is one of the moderately sized elementary campuss in MCKINNEY, Texas, one of the schools within MCKINNEY ISD, with 491 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Across the 33 schools in MCKINNEY ISD (23,296 students total), JOSE DE JESUS AND MARIA LUISA VEGA EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JOSE DE JESUS AND MARIA LUISA VEGA EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 18% Black, 17% White, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 71% of students at JOSE DE JESUS AND MARIA LUISA VEGA EL qualify 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 above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, JOSE DE JESUS AND MARIA LUISA VEGA EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.0%, the actual is 39.8%, a residual of -3.2 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Collin County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $121,600 per year, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. JOSE DE JESUS AND MARIA LUISA VEGA EL is one of 338 public schools in Collin County (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students).

The closest other public school is MCKINNEY NORTH H S, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, JOSE DE JESUS AND MARIA LUISA VEGA EL comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 62.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JOSE DE JESUS AND MARIA LUISA VEGA EL has contracted 6%, going from 521 students in 2018 to 491 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 27% to 17% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.