STEM ACADEMY AT DONALD EL

STEM ACADEMY AT DONALD EL is one of the reasonably sized primary schools in FLOWER MOUND, Texas, overseen by LEWISVILLE ISD, with 526 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

LEWISVILLE ISD comprises 62 schools with combined enrollment of 47,876 students; STEM ACADEMY AT DONALD EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, STEM ACADEMY AT DONALD EL records that White students make up the majority at 55%. Other groups include 18% Asian, 17% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Denton County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, STEM ACADEMY AT DONALD EL has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 11% of students at STEM ACADEMY AT DONALD EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Denton County (around 35%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), STEM ACADEMY AT DONALD EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.2%, the actual is 61.9%, a residual of -7.3 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Denton County put 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%. STEM ACADEMY AT DONALD EL is one of 267 public schools in Denton County (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students).

Nearest neighbor: STEM ACADEMY AT FORESTWOOD MIDDLE, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, STEM ACADEMY AT DONALD EL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 74.5%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at STEM ACADEMY AT DONALD EL has increased 11%, going from 476 students in 2018 to 526 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 68% to 55% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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