PROVIDENCE EL

PROVIDENCE EL is an elementary-level community of mid-sized scale in AUBREY, Texas, operated by DENTON ISD, serveing 678 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 31% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Within DENTON ISD, which oversees 46 schools and 33,329 students, PROVIDENCE EL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, PROVIDENCE EL records that 44% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 23% Hispanic, 20% White, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian. By comparison, Denton County as a whole is about 11% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, PROVIDENCE EL records 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Denton County's rate of about 35%.

After controlling for student poverty, PROVIDENCE EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.4%; this one comes in at 25.1%, -25.3 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, Denton County reports that median household earnings sit near $111,498, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Denton County's 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), PROVIDENCE EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is JAMES A MONACO, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PROVIDENCE EL. On composite proficiency, PROVIDENCE EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.4%.

PROVIDENCE EL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 63%: 415 students in 2018 compared to 678 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 65% to 20% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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