MEADOWS EL

MEADOWS EL, an intimate elementary-level community in PLANO, Texas, one of the schools within PLANO ISD, caters to 414 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 20% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

MEADOWS EL is one of 73 schools operated by PLANO ISD, a district that instructs 46,612 students overall.

In terms of who attends, MEADOWS EL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 79% of enrollment. Other groups include 7% Black, 7% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 87% of students at MEADOWS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Collin County's rate of about 30%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MEADOWS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.8%, the actual is 32.6%, a residual of -3.2 points.

In the broader community, Collin County reports 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. Across Collin County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), MEADOWS EL is one campus in the mix.

HEAD START is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MEADOWS EL at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 39.9%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 14%: 483 students in 2018 compared to 414 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 72% to 79% across the same window.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.