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TALLEY EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyAbout 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 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.0%, the actual is 85.9%, a residual of +13.9 points.
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 3rd 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.
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