TOMMIE DOBIE BOTHWELL EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores have held steady since 2024, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 TOMMIE DOBIE BOTHWELL EL
As an average-sized K-5 school in CELINA, Texas, TOMMIE DOBIE BOTHWELL EL teaches 472 students from grades K through 5, part of CELINA ISD.
CELINA ISD runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 5,324 students. TOMMIE DOBIE BOTHWELL EL is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, TOMMIE DOBIE BOTHWELL EL reports that 39% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 27% White, 15% Hispanic, 14% Black, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, TOMMIE DOBIE BOTHWELL EL logs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting TOMMIE DOBIE BOTHWELL EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 15% of students at TOMMIE DOBIE BOTHWELL EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Collin County (around 30%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, TOMMIE DOBIE BOTHWELL EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.2%, the actual is 64.3%, a residual of -2.9 points.
Across the wider county, census data for Collin County shows median household income runs about $121,600, roughly 56% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. TOMMIE DOBIE BOTHWELL EL is one of 338 public schools in Collin County (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students).
The closest other public school is LIGHT FARMS EL, roughly 2.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TOMMIE DOBIE BOTHWELL EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 63.3%.
TOMMIE DOBIE BOTHWELL EL operates from a low-density location.
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