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Enrollment
607
Elementary
DISTRICT 599 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FRISCO ISD·NCES 482001012899
Phillips Elementary School
2285 LITTLE RIVER DR, FRISCO, TX 75033 · (469) 633-6000 · Denton County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL607 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 73% of Texas public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
136 students
DISTRICT 15% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 38 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 74 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 79 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 96 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 97 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 111 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 112 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 34% smaller than its 5th grade class (112).
Student demographics
77%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
75.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +33.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
70.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +13.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 70 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 33 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 13 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 43.0% | 32.0% | 15.0% | 10.0% |
| Mathematics | 40.0% | 30.0% | 16.0% | 14.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 75.0% | 70.0% |
| 2024-25 | 77.0% | 64.0% |
| 2023-24 | 73.0% | 63.0% |
| 2022-23 | 74.0% | 69.0% |
| 2021-22 | 79.0% | 68.0% |
| 2020-21 | 42.0% | 57.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
64.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.1%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Phillips Elementary School
Phillips Elementary School's state test result (64.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phillips Elementary School this school | 607 | 22.4% | 64.8% |
| Tadlock Elementary School FRISCO | 459 | 24.8% | 61.6% |
| Bush Elementary School HOUSTON | 703 | 29.2% | 71.7% |
| Boals Elementary School FRISCO | 635 | 16.9% | 65.3% |
| James and Margie Marion Elementary School ALLEN | 688 | 18.8% | 67.3% |
| Spears Elementary School FRISCO | 670 | 22.2% | 57.5% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Phillips Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Denton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.8% | #531 of 4,401 | #40 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #418 of 4,466 ▲ 234 | #23 of 138 ▲ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #477 of 4,466 ▼ 64 | #38 of 138 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.0pp | #2,690 of 3,998 | #96 of 129 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 607 | #1,568 of 4,938 | #49 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #2,060 of 4,622 | #87 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.6% | #44 of 4,628 | #6 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.4% | #4,383 of 4,789 | #96 of 143 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.8% | #2,039 of 2,838 | #43 of 69 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
607
-69 (-10%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 16.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 607 | 41.7 | 14.6:1 | 22% (136) |
| 2023-24 | 649 | 42.3 | 15.3:1 | 21% (137) |
| 2022-23 | 694 | 40.9 | 17.0:1 | 18% (122) |
| 2020-21 | 676 | 42 | 16.1:1 | 7% (49) |
| 2017-18 | 673 | 38.6 | 17.4:1 | 7% (45) |
| 2015-16 | 751 | 42 | 17.9:1 | 14% (107) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Phillips Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (673 to 607); teachers up 8% (38.6 to 41.7).
About Phillips Elementary School
Phillips Elementary School is a public elementary school in FRISCO, Texas. There are 607 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 5.
The district, FRISCO ISD, operates 76 schools serving 65,289 students.
Of every 100 students at Phillips Elementary School, about 30 are Asian, the largest group. Smaller groups are 27% White, 20% Black, 15% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Denton County is roughly 11% Asian. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 77, compared with 70 nationally.
Staffing at Phillips Elementary School comes to 41.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.6:1. The average for elementary schools in Texas is about 15.1:1. On the income side, 22% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 35% average for public schools in Denton County is 13 points.
Phillips Elementary School earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 73% of Texas public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Phillips Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Texas schools: 64.8% actual against 64.1% predicted.
In the wider Denton County area, the median household earns about $111,498 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 49% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Across Denton County, 267 public schools serve about 175,222 students.
Of the public schools around it, Phillips Elementary School is closest to Stafford Middle School, less than a tenth of a mile away. Phillips Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: Phillips Elementary School ranks 8th of 9 nearby schools, at 64.8% versus a 69.6% average.
In the federal locale system, Phillips Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 10%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 16.1:1 in 2020-21, and 14.6:1 in 2024-25.
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Denton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
979,561
Census ACS
Median income
$111,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
267
175,222 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FRISCO ISD
- Wakeland High SchoolHigh · 2,230 students
- Reedy High SchoolHigh · 2,201 students
- Lebanon Trail High SchoolHigh · 2,173 students
- Centennial High SchoolHigh · 2,018 students
- Lone Star High SchoolHigh · 2,004 students
- Heritage High SchoolHigh · 1,996 students
Other schools in FRISCO
- Rock Hill High SchoolHigh · 2,442 students
- Wakeland High SchoolHigh · 2,230 students
- Reedy High SchoolHigh · 2,201 students
- Lebanon Trail High SchoolHigh · 2,173 students
- Centennial High SchoolHigh · 2,018 students
- Lone Star High SchoolHigh · 2,004 students
Other Phillips Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 7 states are named Phillips Elementary. Phillips Elementary School is the largest of the 7.
- Phillips ElementaryHampton, VA · 435 students
- Phillips Elementary SchoolHarrisburg, PA · 393 students
- Phillips ElementaryNapa, CA · 373 students
- Phillips ElementaryPhillips, WI · 302 students
- Phillips ElementaryDes Moines, IA · 263 students
Nearby schools
- Stafford Middle School0.1 mi · 946
- Lone Star High School0.5 mi · 2,004
- Boals Elementary School0.7 mi · 635
- Minett Elementary School1.1 mi · 539
- Panther Creek High School1.3 mi · 1,253
- Newman Elementary School1.3 mi · 594
Frequently asked questions
About Phillips Elementary SchoolHow large is Phillips Elementary School?
Phillips Elementary School enrolls approximately 607 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Phillips Elementary School serve?
Phillips Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Phillips Elementary School?
Approximately 14.6:1 students per teacher at Phillips Elementary School.
How diverse is Phillips Elementary School?
Phillips Elementary School reports a student body of 27% White, 15% Hispanic, 20% Black, 30% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Phillips Elementary School in?
Phillips Elementary School is part of FRISCO ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.