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MOONEYHAM EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MOONEYHAM EL
MOONEYHAM EL is one of the mid-sized elementary campuss in MCKINNEY, Texas, run under FRISCO ISD, with 553 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.
FRISCO ISD runs 76 schools in total, collectively educating 65,289 students. MOONEYHAM EL is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, MOONEYHAM EL lists that 49% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 21% White, 13% Black, 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 19% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.
On the resource side, On paper, MOONEYHAM EL has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 13% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Collin County runs at roughly 30%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, MOONEYHAM EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.1%, the actual is 73.6%, a residual of +5.5 points.
In the surrounding community, Collin County reports that the typical household earns roughly $121,600 per year, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 MOONEYHAM EL is one.
ROACH MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MOONEYHAM EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 70.6%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MOONEYHAM EL has ticked down 33%, going from 826 students in 2018 to 553 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 34% to 21%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.
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