LOWE EL

Located at 450 BEAUCHAMP BLVD, in PRINCETON, Texas, LOWE EL is a mid-sized elementary-level community that teaches 675 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of PRINCETON ISD. That puts it 30% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Within PRINCETON ISD, which oversees 14 schools and 9,956 students, LOWE EL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, LOWE EL lists that 36% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 24% Black, 22% White, 11% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, LOWE EL has 41 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 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Collin County runs at roughly 30%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LOWE EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.4%; this one delivers 44.0%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Collin County indicate median household earnings sit near $121,600, roughly 56% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. LOWE EL is one of 338 public schools in Collin County (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students).

The closest other public school is CANUP EARLY CHILDHOOD, roughly 1.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LOWE EL at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 45.7%.

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