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TALLEY EL
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 90 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 88 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 40 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 30 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 72% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
About TALLEY EL
TALLEY EL is a moderately sized elementary school in FRISCO, Texas, one of the schools within FRISCO ISD. The school teaches 616 students in grades pre-K through 5.
Within FRISCO ISD, which oversees 76 schools and 65,289 students, TALLEY EL is one campus in the system.
On demographics, TALLEY EL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Asian (83%). The remainder breaks down as 5% White, 4% Hispanic, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 19% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, TALLEY EL has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 4% of students at TALLEY EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Collin County's rate of about 30%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, TALLEY EL ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 71.9%; TALLEY EL posts 87.0%, +15.1 points above that line.
Across the wider county, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Collin County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), TALLEY EL is one campus in the mix.
CURTSINGER EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, TALLEY EL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 80.3%.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Collin County at a glance
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