STINSON EL

STINSON EL, a mid-tier elementary-level community in RICHARDSON, Texas, overseen by PLANO ISD, enrolls 463 students, covering grades K through 5.

Within PLANO ISD, which oversees 73 schools and 46,612 students, STINSON EL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, STINSON EL records that the largest single group is Asian at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 33% White, 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 7% Black. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 19% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting STINSON EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 18% of students at STINSON EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Collin County (around 30%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, STINSON EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.0%; this one delivers 71.5%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Collin County indicate median household income runs about $121,600, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. STINSON EL is one of 338 public schools in Collin County (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students).

Nearest neighbor: OTTO MIDDLE, around 1.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, STINSON EL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 52.6%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at STINSON EL has declined 28%, going from 647 students in 2018 to 463 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share ticked down from 45% to 39%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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