SAM JOHNSON EL

SAM JOHNSON EL is a K-5 school of mid-sized scale in CELINA, Texas, one of the schools within PROSPER ISD, teacheing 738 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so SAM JOHNSON EL sits 42% above that benchmark.

SAM JOHNSON EL is one of 27 schools operated by PROSPER ISD, a district that enrolls 31,651 students overall.

On demographics, SAM JOHNSON EL records that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 30% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 8% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 54% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SAM JOHNSON EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 1% of students at SAM JOHNSON EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Collin County's rate of about 30%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SAM JOHNSON EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 73.2%; this one delivers 60.9%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Collin County) logs that median household earnings sit near $121,600, 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), SAM JOHNSON EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is LILYANA EL, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SAM JOHNSON EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 62.3%.

The school occupies a rural site.

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