MAX O VAUGHAN EL

Located at 820 COTTONWOOD DR, in ALLEN, Texas, MAX O VAUGHAN EL is a moderately sized K-5 school that instructs 691 students (grades K through 6), run under ALLEN ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 33% bigger than the state mean of about 519.

ALLEN ISD runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 20,838 students. MAX O VAUGHAN EL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, MAX O VAUGHAN EL records that the most-represented group is White (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 33% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 8% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 54%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 19% 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 meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MAX O VAUGHAN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.4%, the actual is 75.4%, a residual of +10.0 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Collin County put the typical household earns roughly $121,600 per year, roughly 56% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Collin County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), of which MAX O VAUGHAN EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: ALTON BOYD EL, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MAX O VAUGHAN EL at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 52.6%.

MAX O VAUGHAN EL operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 3%: 709 students in 2018 compared to 691 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment edged up from 26% to 33% over that span.

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