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PRAIRIE TRAIL EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 66 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 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 27 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 31 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 PRAIRIE TRAIL EL
PRAIRIE TRAIL EL, a mid-sized primary school in FLOWER MOUND, Texas, overseen by LEWISVILLE ISD, teaches 672 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so PRAIRIE TRAIL EL sits 29% bigger than that benchmark.
Across the 62 schools in LEWISVILLE ISD (47,876 students total), PRAIRIE TRAIL EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, PRAIRIE TRAIL EL reports that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 39% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Denton County's rate of about 35%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PRAIRIE TRAIL EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.7%, the actual is 60.9%, a residual of -1.8 points.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Denton County indicate median household income runs about $111,498, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Denton County runs 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), of which PRAIRIE TRAIL EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: LAMAR MIDDLE, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PRAIRIE TRAIL EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 54.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PRAIRIE TRAIL EL has contracted 3%, going from 690 students in 2018 to 672 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 22% to 39% across the same window.
On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Denton County at a glance
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