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R V GROVES EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About R V GROVES EL
Set in WYLIE, Texas, R V GROVES EL is a medium-sized elementary campus, operated by WYLIE ISD. It instructs 680 students across grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 31% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
WYLIE ISD runs 29 schools in total, collectively educating 25,007 students. R V GROVES EL is one of those campuses.
Demographically, R V GROVES EL shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 27% White, 15% Black, 14% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting R V GROVES EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Collin County (around 30%), the school's rate is north of typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), R V GROVES EL ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 52.5%; R V GROVES EL posts 71.3%, +18.8 points above that line.
In the area at large, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Collin County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), of which R V GROVES EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: TIBBALS EL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around R V GROVES EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts R V GROVES EL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 73.5%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Five-year trend. R V GROVES EL's enrollment has expanded 23% since 2018, when it stood at 555 (now 680). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 19% to 40% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.
Inside the community feed, members of the R V GROVES EL community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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