LAS COLINAS EL

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in IRVING, Texas, LAS COLINAS EL enrolls 505 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD.

LAS COLINAS EL is one of 39 schools operated by CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD, a district that hosts 24,165 students overall.

Looking at the student body, LAS COLINAS EL reports that the most-represented group is Asian (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 16% Black, 15% Hispanic, 12% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 7% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, LAS COLINAS EL records 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 22% of students at LAS COLINAS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, LAS COLINAS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.4%, the actual is 66.5%, a residual of +2.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Dallas County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), LAS COLINAS EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: RICHARD J LEE EL, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LAS COLINAS EL at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 60.0%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 8%: 549 students in 2018 compared to 505 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share grew from 42% to 51%.

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