REUBEN JOHNSON EL

REUBEN JOHNSON EL is a modestly sized primary school in MCKINNEY, Texas, operated by MCKINNEY ISD. The school educates 378 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so REUBEN JOHNSON EL sits 27% smaller than that benchmark.

MCKINNEY ISD comprises 33 schools with combined enrollment of 23,296 students; REUBEN JOHNSON EL is among them.

Demographically, REUBEN JOHNSON EL logs that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 19% Hispanic, 13% Black, 10% Asian, 7% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, REUBEN JOHNSON EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.4%.

In the surrounding community, 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), REUBEN JOHNSON EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ROY LEE WALKER EL, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts REUBEN JOHNSON EL at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 63.5%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at REUBEN JOHNSON EL has declined 25%, going from 502 students in 2018 to 378 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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