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R F HARTMAN EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are down about 17 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 R F HARTMAN EL
As an average-sized K-5 school in WYLIE, Texas, R F HARTMAN EL educates 518 students from grades pre-K through 4, one of the schools within WYLIE ISD.
R F HARTMAN EL is one of 29 schools operated by WYLIE ISD, a district that serves 25,007 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, R F HARTMAN EL logs that the most-represented group is White (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 21% Black, 20% Hispanic, 20% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 54% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, R F HARTMAN EL has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Collin County runs at roughly 30%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, R F HARTMAN EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.7%.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Collin County shows the typical household earns roughly $121,600 per year, about 56% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Collin County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), R F HARTMAN EL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is AB HARRISON INT, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around R F HARTMAN EL. On composite proficiency, R F HARTMAN EL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 70.3%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Looking at the recent track record. R F HARTMAN EL's enrollment has fell 10% since 2018, when it stood at 577 (now 518). Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 27% to 20%. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.
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