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MAYFIELD EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 12 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
About MAYFIELD EL
MAYFIELD EL is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in PRINCETON, Texas, run under PRINCETON ISD, educateing 668 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 29% bigger than typical.
MAYFIELD EL is one of 14 schools operated by PRINCETON ISD, a district that educates 9,956 students overall.
Demographically, MAYFIELD EL shows that 49% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 29% White, 13% Black, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, On paper, MAYFIELD EL has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Collin County runs at roughly 30%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MAYFIELD EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.0%; this one delivers 38.8%.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Collin County indicate median household income runs about $121,600, roughly 56% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. MAYFIELD EL is one of 338 public schools in Collin County (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students).
MATTEI MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MAYFIELD EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.0%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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