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R V GROVES EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 71 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 24 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 20 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 52% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
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.
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Collin County at a glance
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