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MARY EVANS EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 85 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 84 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 22 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 70% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MARY EVANS EL
MARY EVANS EL is a K-5 school of average-sized scale in ALLEN, Texas, operated by ALLEN ISD, caters to 621 students in grades K through 6.
MARY EVANS EL is one of 23 schools operated by ALLEN ISD, a district that caters to 20,838 students overall.
Looking at the student body, MARY EVANS EL logs that the largest single group is Asian at 52%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 23% White, 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 6% Black. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.
On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 10% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Collin County's rate of about 30%.
After controlling for student poverty, MARY EVANS EL ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 69.5%; MARY EVANS EL posts 83.8%, +14.3 points above that line.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Collin County) shows that median household earnings sit near $121,600, about 56% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Collin County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), MARY EVANS EL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is KERR EL, roughly 1.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MARY EVANS EL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 77.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Over the past 7-year window. MARY EVANS EL's enrollment has declined 11% since 2018, when it stood at 698 (now 621). White enrollment moved from 43% to 23% across the same window.
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