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ROBERTSON EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 27 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 17 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ROBERTSON EL
ROBERTSON EL is one of the average-sized elementary-level communitys in LITTLE ELM, Texas, part of FRISCO ISD, with 624 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so ROBERTSON EL sits 20% above that benchmark.
Within FRISCO ISD, which oversees 76 schools and 65,289 students, ROBERTSON EL is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, ROBERTSON EL records that the most-represented group is Asian (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 29% White, 16% Black, 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Denton County as a whole is about 11% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school employs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 12% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, ROBERTSON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.7%, the actual is 66.0%, a residual of -2.7 points.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Denton County put the typical household earns roughly $111,498 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. ROBERTSON EL is one of 267 public schools in Denton County (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students).
Nearest neighbor: LAKEVIEW EL, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROBERTSON EL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 61.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a residential area.
Over the past 7-year window. ROBERTSON EL's enrollment has fell 16% since 2018, when it stood at 741 (now 624). The Asian share of enrollment increased from 23% to 38% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.
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