PARKWAY EL

PARKWAY EL is a K-5 school of mid-sized scale in LEWISVILLE, Texas, operated by LEWISVILLE ISD, teacheing 571 students in grades pre-K through 5.

PARKWAY EL is one of 62 schools operated by LEWISVILLE ISD, a district that teaches 47,876 students overall.

Looking at the student body, PARKWAY EL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% White, 10% Black, 9% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 21% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, PARKWAY EL has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, PARKWAY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.7%, the actual is 39.1%, a residual of -5.6 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Denton County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $111,498 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. PARKWAY EL is one of 267 public schools in Denton County (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students).

Nearest neighbor: CREEKSIDE EL, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PARKWAY EL. On composite proficiency, PARKWAY EL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. PARKWAY EL's enrollment has increased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 518 (now 571). White enrollment moved from 27% to 16% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

Inside the community feed, members of the PARKWAY EL community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.