RASOR EL

RASOR EL, an intimate primary school in PLANO, Texas, overseen by PLANO ISD, works with 351 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 32% smaller than the state mean of about 519.

PLANO ISD comprises 73 schools with combined enrollment of 46,612 students; RASOR EL is among them.

Demographically, RASOR EL logs that the largest single group is Black at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 24% Hispanic, 17% White, 11% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 11% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 62% of students at RASOR EL qualify 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, RASOR EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 46.6%; RASOR EL posts 26.9%, -19.7 points below that line.

Around the school, Collin County reports that median household income runs about $121,600, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Collin County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), RASOR EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ERECKSON MIDDLE, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RASOR EL. On composite proficiency, RASOR EL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 68.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. RASOR EL's enrollment has shrank 21% since 2018, when it stood at 446 (now 351). Black enrollment moved from 27% to 42% across the same window.

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