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LOIS LINDSEY EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LOIS LINDSEY EL
Located at 5730 WILFORD DR, in MCKINNEY, Texas, LOIS LINDSEY EL is a large primary school that teaches 792 students (grades pre-K through 6), run under ALLEN ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so LOIS LINDSEY EL sits 53% bigger than that benchmark.
ALLEN ISD comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 20,838 students; LOIS LINDSEY EL is among them.
On demographics, LOIS LINDSEY EL reports that the largest single group is Asian at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 17% White, 12% Hispanic, 10% Black, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, On paper, LOIS LINDSEY EL has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 14% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Collin County (around 30%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LOIS LINDSEY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.6%, the actual is 71.0%, a residual of +3.4 points.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Collin County) records that median household earnings sit near $121,600, roughly 56% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. LOIS LINDSEY EL is one of 338 public schools in Collin County (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students).
The closest other public school is EMERSON H S, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LOIS LINDSEY EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LOIS LINDSEY EL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 65.2%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Over the past 7-year window. LOIS LINDSEY EL's enrollment has edged up 18% since 2018, when it stood at 669 (now 792). Over the same period, the Asian share ticked up from 26% to 52%.
Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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