ROY LEE WALKER EL

ROY LEE WALKER EL is a K-5 school of small scale in MCKINNEY, Texas, operated by MCKINNEY ISD, instructing 381 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 27% below the state mean of about 519.

MCKINNEY ISD runs 33 schools in total, collectively educating 23,296 students. ROY LEE WALKER EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, ROY LEE WALKER EL logs that 60% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder reads as 16% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 10% Asian, 4% Black.

Looking at school resources, On paper, ROY LEE WALKER EL has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ROY LEE WALKER EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 17% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Collin County's rate of about 30%.

After controlling for student poverty, ROY LEE WALKER EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 66.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 69.9%.

In the area at large, Collin County reports that the typical household earns roughly $121,600 per year, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Collin County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), ROY LEE WALKER EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: REUBEN JOHNSON EL, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ROY LEE WALKER EL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 57.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROY LEE WALKER EL has contracted 33%, going from 567 students in 2018 to 381 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 66% to 60% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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