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T F BIRMINGHAM EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 28 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 22 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 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.
Collin County at a glance
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