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Enrollment
587
Elementary
DISTRICT 660 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WYLIE ISD·NCES 484653010521
Rita Smith Elementary School
2221 FM 1378, WYLIE, TX 75098 · (972) 429-2540 · Collin County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL587 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
154 students
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 105 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 82 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 106 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 96 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 101 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 97 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (82) is 15% smaller than its 4th grade class (97).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
82.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +54.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
82.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +41.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 54 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 41 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 53.0% | 29.0% | 11.0% | 7.0% |
| Mathematics | 58.0% | 24.0% | 13.0% | 5.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 82.0% | 82.0% |
| 2024-25 | 84.0% | 81.0% |
| 2023-24 | 83.0% | 80.0% |
| 2022-23 | 71.0% | 71.0% |
| 2021-22 | 77.0% | 66.0% |
| 2020-21 | 28.0% | 41.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
82.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.5%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 62% 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 20 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Rita Smith Elementary School
Rita Smith Elementary School's state test result (82.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rita Smith Elementary School this school | 587 | 26.2% | 82.1% |
| Bolin Elementary School PARKER | 605 | 22.0% | 66.1% |
| Ridgeview Elementary School KELLER | 534 | 27.3% | 64.0% |
| Flossie Floyd Green Elementary School ALLEN | 553 | 22.2% | 62.4% |
| Sunnyvale Elementary School SUNNYVALE | 503 | 22.9% | N/A |
| David and Lynda Olson Elementary School ALLEN | 678 | 20.1% | 63.8% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Rita Smith Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Collin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.1% | #62 of 4,401 | #12 of 164 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #113 of 4,466 ▲ 18 | #17 of 165 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #209 of 4,466 ▼ 31 | #23 of 165 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +11.0pp | #1,349 of 3,998 | #34 of 154 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 587 | #1,717 of 4,938 | #81 of 181 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #1,395 of 4,622 | #78 of 177 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.2% | #318 of 4,628 | #57 of 177 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.2% | #4,305 of 4,789 | #83 of 177 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +17.4% | #493 of 1,307 | #25 of 54 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
587
+118 (+25%) vs 2020
-2% since 2010-11, when it was 600
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 13.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 587 | 42.4 | 13.8:1 | 26% (154) |
| 2023-24 | 606 | 43.5 | 13.9:1 | 27% (165) |
| 2022-23 | 521 | 38 | 13.7:1 | 23% (121) |
| 2020-21 | 469 | 36 | 13.0:1 | 21% (98) |
| 2017-18 | 500 | 33.1 | 15.1:1 | 15% (75) |
| 2015-16 | 609 | 40 | 15.2:1 | 21% (127) |
| 2010-11 | 600 | 41 | 14.6:1 | 25% (147) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rita Smith Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 17% (500 to 587); teachers up 28% (33.1 to 42.4).
About Rita Smith Elementary School
Rita Smith Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in WYLIE, Texas, one of the schools in WYLIE ISD. Enrolled students number 587 students, in pre-K through 4.
District-wide, WYLIE ISD has 21 schools and 19,401 students.
White students are the largest group at Rita Smith Elementary School, with 43% of enrollment. Next come 21% Asian, 15% Hispanic, 14% Black, and 6% multiracial. The county population is about 54% White. The chance that two students picked at random at Rita Smith Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 72%.
The teaching staff at Rita Smith Elementary School is 42.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 13.8:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Texas is 15.1:1, higher than at this school. About 26% of students, or 154, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Rita Smith Elementary School is 19.6 points above expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the top 10% in Texas.
In the county around the school, Collin County, median household income is about $121,600, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Rita Smith Elementary School is among the 338 public schools in Collin County.
The shortest distance from Rita Smith Elementary School to another public school is about 1.1 miles, to Dodd Elementary School. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Rita Smith Elementary School places 2nd of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
NCES assigns Rita Smith Elementary School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The number of students grew from 469 to 587 over 4 years.
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Collin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,163,337
Census ACS
Median income
$121,600
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
56%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
338
227,575 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WYLIE ISD
- Wylie High SchoolHigh · 3,189 students
- Wylie East High SchoolHigh · 2,709 students
- Ab Harrison Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 1,093 students
- Grady Burnett Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,064 students
- Raymond B Cooper Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,019 students
- Frank McMillan Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,011 students
Other schools in WYLIE
- Wylie High SchoolHigh · 3,189 students
- Wylie East High SchoolHigh · 2,709 students
- Ab Harrison Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 1,093 students
- Grady Burnett Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,064 students
- Raymond B Cooper Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,019 students
- Frank McMillan Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,011 students
Nearby schools
- Dodd Elementary School1.1 mi · 607
- Frank McMillan Junior High School1.5 mi · 1,011
- George W Bush Elementary School1.6 mi · 924
- Davis Intermediate School1.6 mi · 957
- R V Groves Elementary School1.9 mi · 680
- Tibbals Elementary School2.2 mi · 609
Frequently asked questions
About Rita Smith Elementary SchoolHow large is Rita Smith Elementary School?
Rita Smith Elementary School enrolls approximately 587 students in grades PK-04.
Is Rita Smith Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Rita Smith Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Rita Smith Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Rita Smith Elementary School is approximately 13.8:1 (42 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Rita Smith Elementary School?
Student demographics at Rita Smith Elementary School are roughly 43% White, 15% Hispanic, 14% Black, 21% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Rita Smith Elementary School?
Rita Smith Elementary School is overseen by WYLIE ISD in Collin County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.