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Enrollment
381
Elementary
DISTRICT 475 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MCKINNEY ISD·NCES 482985008733
Roy Lee Walker Elementary School
4000 COCKRILL DR, MCKINNEY, TX 75070 · (469) 302-4600 · Collin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL381 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 93% of Texas public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
63 students
DISTRICT 37% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 53 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 28% smaller than its 5th grade class (74).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Roy Lee Walker Elementary School→Faubion Middle School
Based on published attendance-zone data from MCKINNEY ISD. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
76.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +30.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
73.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +27.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 73 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 30 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 27 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 48.0% | 28.0% | 17.0% | 7.0% |
| Mathematics | 46.0% | 27.0% | 15.0% | 12.0% |
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 | 76.0% | 73.0% |
| 2024-25 | 83.0% | 80.0% |
| 2023-24 | 73.0% | 82.0% |
| 2022-23 | 44.0% | 44.0% |
| 2021-22 | 60.0% | 50.0% |
| 2020-21 | 46.0% | 46.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
70.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.6%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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%.
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 Roy Lee Walker Elementary School
Roy Lee Walker Elementary School's state test result (70.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roy Lee Walker Elementary School this school | 381 | 16.5% | 70.8% |
| Hughston Elementary School PLANO | 379 | 17.2% | 75.1% |
| Shepard Elementary School PLANO | 400 | 18.8% | 55.9% |
| Dean and Mildred Bennett Elementary School MCKINNEY | 425 | 14.1% | 63.7% |
| The Leadership Academy TYLER | 332 | 19.0% | 68.1% |
| Dorothy P Adkins Elementary School LANTANA | 452 | 12.4% | 59.8% |
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 Roy Lee Walker Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Collin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.8% | #292 of 4,401 | #51 of 164 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #326 of 4,466 ▼ 178 | #40 of 165 ▼ 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #433 of 4,466 ▼ 233 | #52 of 165 ▼ 26 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +30.5pp | #146 of 3,998 | #1 of 154 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 381 | #3,646 of 4,938 | #154 of 181 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.3:1 | #45 of 4,622 | #5 of 177 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.5% | #1,449 of 4,628 | #141 of 177 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.5% | #4,515 of 4,789 | #115 of 177 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -32.8% | #379 of 2,838 | #12 of 94 |
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
381
-70 (-16%) vs 2020
-32% since 2000-01, when it was 564
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 381 | 37 | 10.3:1 | 17% (63) |
| 2023-24 | 398 | 27.2 | 14.6:1 | 16% (64) |
| 2022-23 | 433 | 32.1 | 13.5:1 | 15% (65) |
| 2020-21 | 451 | 33 | 13.7:1 | 13% (58) |
| 2017-18 | 567 | 33.6 | 16.9:1 | 8% (47) |
| 2015-16 | 578 | 37 | 15.6:1 | 5% (29) |
| 2010-11 | 611 | 36 | 17.0:1 | 5% (29) |
| 2000-01 | 564 | 34 | 16.6:1 | 15% (87) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Roy Lee Walker Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 33% (567 to 381); teachers up 10% (33.6 to 37).
About Roy Lee Walker Elementary School
Roy Lee Walker Elementary School is a small elementary school in Texas, with an address in MCKINNEY. Its enrollment is 381 students, spread over kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in Texas average about 519 students, which makes this school 27% below average.
MCKINNEY ISD has 23,296 students spread across 33 schools.
The student body at Roy Lee Walker Elementary School is 60% White. It is also 16% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 10% Asian, and 4% Black. A diversity index of 60% means there is a 60% chance two randomly chosen students at Roy Lee Walker Elementary School are from different groups.
The school had 37 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 10.3:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Texas is 15.1:1. The school reported 17% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The rate at public schools in Collin County averages 30%, higher than here.
Roy Lee Walker Elementary School earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 93% of Texas public elementary schools.
A school with Roy Lee Walker Elementary School's lunch-eligibility share in Texas is predicted to score 66.6%. Roy Lee Walker Elementary School scores 70.8%, 4.1 points above that line.
The county, Collin County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $121,600, about 56% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county's public schools total 338, with about 227,575 students.
Reuben Johnson Elementary School is about 1.0 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Roy Lee Walker Elementary School ranks 2nd of 9 on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 381, from 451 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher dropped from 13.7 to 10.3 over 4 years.
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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 MCKINNEY ISD
- McKinney High SchoolHigh · 2,668 students
- McKinney Boyd High SchoolHigh · 2,547 students
- McKinney North High SchoolHigh · 2,387 students
- Dr Jack Cockrill Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,210 students
- Scott Morgan Johnson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,108 students
- Faubion Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,033 students
Other schools in MCKINNEY
- McKinney High SchoolHigh · 2,668 students
- McKinney Boyd High SchoolHigh · 2,547 students
- McKinney North High SchoolHigh · 2,387 students
- Emerson High SchoolHigh · 1,844 students
- Imagine International Academy of North TexasCombined · 1,445 students
- Dr Jack Cockrill Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,210 students
Nearby schools
- Reuben Johnson Elementary School1.0 mi · 378
- Arthur H McNeil Elementary School1.2 mi · 335
- Valley Creek Elementary School1.3 mi · 498
- Glen Oaks Elementary School1.5 mi · 478
- Jesse McGowen Elementary School1.6 mi · 570
- McKinney Boyd High School1.8 mi · 2,547
Frequently asked questions
About Roy Lee Walker Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Roy Lee Walker Elementary School?
Roy Lee Walker Elementary School enrolls approximately 381 students in grades KG-05.
Is Roy Lee Walker Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Roy Lee Walker Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Roy Lee Walker Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Roy Lee Walker Elementary School is approximately 10.3:1 (37 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Roy Lee Walker Elementary School?
At Roy Lee Walker Elementary School, the student body is approximately 60% White, 16% Hispanic, 4% Black, 10% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Roy Lee Walker Elementary School public or private?
Roy Lee Walker Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by MCKINNEY ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.