PRESTWICK EL

PRESTWICK EL operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in THE COLONY, Texas, one of the schools within LITTLE ELM ISD. Current enrollment sits at 451 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

LITTLE ELM ISD comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 8,036 students; PRESTWICK EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PRESTWICK EL shows that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 19% Asian, 17% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 7% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, PRESTWICK EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 71.0%; actual is 56.9%, a gap of -14.1 points.

In the area at large, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Denton County's 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), PRESTWICK EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LOWELL H STRIKE MIDDLE, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PRESTWICK EL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

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