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T F BIRMINGHAM EL
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About T F BIRMINGHAM EL
As a mid-sized primary school in WYLIE, Texas, T F BIRMINGHAM EL instructs 522 students from grades pre-K through 4, overseen by WYLIE ISD.
WYLIE ISD comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 25,007 students; T F BIRMINGHAM EL is among them.
Looking at the student body, T F BIRMINGHAM EL shows that the largest single group is White at 35%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 22% Black, 21% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 54% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting T F BIRMINGHAM EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Collin County's rate of about 30%.
After controlling for student poverty, T F BIRMINGHAM EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 65.5%.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Collin County indicate 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%. In all, Collin County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), of which T F BIRMINGHAM EL is one.
R F HARTMAN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around T F BIRMINGHAM EL. On composite proficiency, T F BIRMINGHAM EL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 70.0%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at T F BIRMINGHAM EL has grew 3%, going from 508 students in 2018 to 522 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 53% to 35% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.
In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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