SPARKS EL

As a moderately sized K-5 school in FRISCO, Texas, SPARKS EL works with 531 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by FRISCO ISD.

SPARKS EL is one of 76 schools operated by FRISCO ISD, a district that educates 65,289 students overall.

On demographics, SPARKS EL shows that the largest single group is Asian at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 34% White, 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Black. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, SPARKS EL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SPARKS EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 7% of students at SPARKS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Denton County's rate of about 35%.

With demographic context factored in, SPARKS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.7%, the actual is 76.4%, a residual of +5.7 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Denton County indicate median household income runs about $111,498, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Denton County's 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), SPARKS EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PIONEER HERITAGE MIDDLE, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SPARKS EL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 74.7%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SPARKS EL has edged down 27%, going from 725 students in 2018 to 531 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 51% to 34%. Class-load math has fell: from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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