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LIZZIE NELL CUNDIFF MCCLURE EL
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LIZZIE NELL CUNDIFF MCCLURE EL
Located at 1753 N RIDGE RD, in MCKINNEY, Texas, LIZZIE NELL CUNDIFF MCCLURE EL is a moderately sized elementary campus that caters to 661 students (grades K through 5), operated by MCKINNEY ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 27% larger than the state mean of about 519.
MCKINNEY ISD runs 33 schools in total, collectively educating 23,296 students. LIZZIE NELL CUNDIFF MCCLURE EL is one of those campuses.
Demographically, LIZZIE NELL CUNDIFF MCCLURE EL logs that the largest single group is White at 43%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 23% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 12% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 54% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting LIZZIE NELL CUNDIFF MCCLURE EL higher than the state norm the norm. About 14% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Collin County (around 30%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, LIZZIE NELL CUNDIFF MCCLURE EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 67.9%; actual is 52.4%, a gap of -15.5 points.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Collin County indicate median household earnings sit near $121,600, 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 LIZZIE NELL CUNDIFF MCCLURE EL is one.
The closest other public school is MIKE AND JANIE REEVES EL, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LIZZIE NELL CUNDIFF MCCLURE EL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.9%.
LIZZIE NELL CUNDIFF MCCLURE EL operates from a bedroom-community location.
Trend over the last 7 years. LIZZIE NELL CUNDIFF MCCLURE EL's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 645 (now 661). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 66% to 43%.
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