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SPEARS EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 31 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 21 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SPEARS EL
Set in FRISCO, Texas, SPEARS EL is a medium-sized primary school, overseen by FRISCO ISD. It serves 670 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so SPEARS EL sits 29% above that benchmark.
FRISCO ISD comprises 76 schools with combined enrollment of 65,289 students; SPEARS EL is among them.
On demographics, SPEARS EL shows that the most-represented group is Asian (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 29% White, 20% Hispanic, 9% Black, 9% multiracial. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.
On the resource side, The school employs 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, SPEARS EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 64.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 59.1%.
In the broader community, Collin County reports that median household income runs about $121,600, roughly 56% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SPEARS EL is one of 338 public schools in Collin County (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students).
FRISCO H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SPEARS EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SPEARS EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 61.7%.
SPEARS EL operates from a suburban location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 9%: 734 students in 2018 compared to 670 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 48% to 29% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.
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