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OLD SETTLERS EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 89 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 83 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 22 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 21 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About OLD SETTLERS EL
OLD SETTLERS EL is a medium-sized elementary-level community in FLOWER MOUND, Texas, part of LEWISVILLE ISD. The school educates 468 students in grades pre-K through 5.
Within LEWISVILLE ISD, which oversees 62 schools and 47,876 students, OLD SETTLERS EL is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, OLD SETTLERS EL records that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 20% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 7% of students at OLD SETTLERS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, OLD SETTLERS EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.7%; this one delivers 82.4%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Denton County) reports that median household earnings sit near $111,498, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Denton County's 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), OLD SETTLERS EL is one campus in the mix.
MCKAMY MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts OLD SETTLERS EL at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 73.6%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at OLD SETTLERS EL has contracted 18%, going from 569 students in 2018 to 468 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 63% to 56% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.
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