SHAWNEE TRAIL EL

SHAWNEE TRAIL EL is a K-5 school of mid-sized scale in FRISCO, Texas, one of the schools within FRISCO ISD, educateing 494 students in grades pre-K through 5.

FRISCO ISD runs 76 schools in total, collectively educating 65,289 students. SHAWNEE TRAIL EL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, SHAWNEE TRAIL EL records that the largest single group is Asian at 37%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 20% White, 18% Hispanic, 17% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 19% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 30% of students at SHAWNEE TRAIL EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, SHAWNEE TRAIL EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 61.0%; SHAWNEE TRAIL EL posts 46.7%, -14.3 points below that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Collin County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $121,600 per year, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Collin County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), SHAWNEE TRAIL EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: GUNSTREAM EL, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SHAWNEE TRAIL EL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SHAWNEE TRAIL EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 68.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SHAWNEE TRAIL EL has shrank 17%, going from 596 students in 2018 to 494 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 37% to 20% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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