MILLER EL

MILLER EL is a mid-tier elementary school in LITTLE ELM, Texas, one of the schools within FRISCO ISD. The school works with 573 students in grades K through 5.

FRISCO ISD comprises 76 schools with combined enrollment of 65,289 students; MILLER EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, MILLER EL logs that the most-represented group is Asian (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 18% Black, 14% White, 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

In terms of school funding signals, MILLER EL lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 13% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Denton County (around 35%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MILLER EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.3%, the actual is 62.7%, a residual of -5.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, Denton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $111,498 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. MILLER EL is one of 267 public schools in Denton County (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students).

Nearest neighbor: MINETT EL, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MILLER EL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 58.0%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 9%: 631 students in 2018 compared to 573 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment expanded from 28% to 54% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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