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PUREFOY EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 35 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 36 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 PUREFOY EL
As a mid-sized primary school in FRISCO, Texas, PUREFOY EL teaches 606 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by FRISCO ISD.
FRISCO ISD comprises 76 schools with combined enrollment of 65,289 students; PUREFOY EL is among them.
In terms of who attends, PUREFOY EL logs that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 21% Asian, 15% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 57% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, PUREFOY EL reports 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 10% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Denton County's rate of about 35%.
With demographic context factored in, PUREFOY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.3%, the actual is 63.7%, a residual of -5.6 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Denton County put 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%. In all, Denton County runs 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), of which PUREFOY EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: PINK EL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PUREFOY EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PUREFOY EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 71.2%.
PUREFOY EL operates from a bedroom-community location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 4%: 585 students in 2018 compared to 606 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 74% to 47% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.
In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Denton County at a glance
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