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Enrollment
511
Elementary
DISTRICT 496 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GRAPEVINE-COLLEYVILLE ISD·NCES 482166006266
Taylor Elementary School
5300 POOL RD, COLLEYVILLE, TX 76034 · (817) 305-4870 · Tarrant County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL511 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
7%
35 students
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 54 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 80 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 90 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (90).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
83.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +13.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
81.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +11.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 13 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 11 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 55.0% | 28.0% | 11.0% | 6.0% |
| Mathematics | 50.0% | 31.0% | 14.0% | 5.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 83.0% | 81.0% |
| 2024-25 | 85.0% | 81.0% |
| 2023-24 | 83.0% | 77.0% |
| 2022-23 | 75.0% | 88.0% |
| 2021-22 | 60.0% | 50.0% |
| 2020-21 | 70.0% | 70.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
78.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.8%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Taylor Elementary School
Taylor Elementary School's state test result (78.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor Elementary School this school | 511 | 6.8% | 78.0% |
| Heritage Elementary School HIGHLAND VILLAGE | 476 | 6.1% | 65.0% |
| Westside Elementary School CEDAR PARK | 504 | 9.9% | 58.0% |
| Joe V Hart Elementary School LUCAS | 530 | 4.0% | 81.2% |
| Glenhope Elementary School COLLEYVILLE | 567 | 8.6% | 83.0% |
| Lakeview Elementary School ROANOKE | 487 | 5.5% | 75.5% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Taylor Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Tarrant County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #121 of 4,401 | #6 of 330 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #122 of 4,466 ▼ 3 | #9 of 339 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #170 of 4,466 ▼ 43 | #14 of 339 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.5pp | #2,766 of 3,998 | #211 of 320 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 511 | #2,415 of 4,938 | #162 of 353 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #2,350 of 4,622 | #184 of 348 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.7% | #1,953 of 4,628 | #231 of 348 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 6.8% | #4,721 of 4,789 | #339 of 341 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.3% | #1,032 of 1,307 | #55 of 72 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
511
+24 (+5%) vs 2020
-50% since 1990-91, when it was 1,014
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 13.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 511 | 34.3 | 14.9:1 | 7% (35) |
| 2023-24 | 496 | 35.4 | 14.0:1 | 8% (42) |
| 2022-23 | 512 | 36.2 | 14.2:1 | 8% (39) |
| 2020-21 | 487 | 36 | 13.5:1 | 5% (24) |
| 2017-18 | 490 | 36.5 | 13.4:1 | 2% (12) |
| 2015-16 | 468 | 34 | 13.8:1 | 3% (15) |
| 2010-11 | 437 | 31 | 14.1:1 | 2% (9) |
| 2000-01 | 583 | 38 | 15.3:1 | 1% (3) |
| 1990-91 | 1,014 | 43 | 23.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Taylor Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (490 to 511); teachers down 6% (36.5 to 34.3).
About Taylor Elementary School
Taylor Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in GRAPEVINE-COLLEYVILLE ISD, located in COLLEYVILLE, Texas. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 511 students on the rolls.
The district, GRAPEVINE-COLLEYVILLE ISD, operates 20 schools serving 13,541 students.
The share of White students at Taylor Elementary School is 64%, a majority. The remaining students are 14% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 5% multiracial, and 5% Black. Census figures show Tarrant County is about 48% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 55, compared with 70 nationally.
Taylor Elementary School lists 34.3 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 14.9 students per teacher. That is in line with the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. About 7% of students at Taylor Elementary School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 63% average for public schools in Tarrant County is 56 points higher.
Compared with Texas schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Taylor Elementary School's results are 7.2 points above predicted: 78.0% against 70.8%.
Looking at the county, Tarrant County, the median household earns about $84,207 a year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Taylor Elementary School, Tarrant County has 639 public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Taylor Elementary School is closest to Heritage Elementary School, about 1.1 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 71.6%; Taylor Elementary School's is 78.0%, ranking 2nd of 7.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 487 students in 2020-21, enrollment rose to 511 by 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 13.5:1 to 14.9:1.
Taylor Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Tarrant County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,167,390
Census ACS
Median income
$84,207
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
639
385,835 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in GRAPEVINE-COLLEYVILLE ISD
- Colleyville Heritage High SchoolHigh · 1,837 students
- Grapevine High SchoolHigh · 1,624 students
- Iuniversity PrepHigh · 1,415 students
- Cross Timbers Middle SchoolMiddle · 820 students
- Heritage Middle SchoolMiddle · 724 students
- Grapevine Middle SchoolMiddle · 635 students
Other schools in COLLEYVILLE
- Colleyville Heritage High SchoolHigh · 1,837 students
- Heritage Middle SchoolMiddle · 724 students
- Colleyville Middle SchoolMiddle · 610 students
- Glenhope Elementary SchoolElementary · 567 students
- Bransford Elementary SchoolElementary · 454 students
- Colleyville Elementary SchoolElementary · 415 students
Other Taylor Elementary schools
17 other US public schools in 13 states are named Taylor Elementary. Taylor Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 18.
- Taylor Elementary SchoolPLANO, TX · 744 students
- Taylor Elementary SchoolABILENE, TX · 662 students
- Taylor Elementary SchoolMERCEDES, TX · 406 students
- Taylor Elementary SchoolLawrenceville, GA · 883 students
- Taylor Elementary SchoolCincinnati, OH · 797 students
Nearby schools
- Heritage Elementary School1.1 mi · 538
- Heritage Middle School1.1 mi · 724
- Glenhope Elementary School1.3 mi · 567
- Colleyville Heritage High School1.3 mi · 1,837
- The Bridges Academy Alter1.4 mi · 57
- Colleyville Middle School1.5 mi · 610
Frequently asked questions
About Taylor Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Taylor Elementary School?
Taylor Elementary School enrolls approximately 511 students in grades PK-05.
Is Taylor Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Taylor Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Taylor Elementary School have?
Taylor Elementary School employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Taylor Elementary School?
Student demographics at Taylor Elementary School are roughly 64% White, 14% Hispanic, 5% Black, 12% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Taylor Elementary School public or private?
Taylor Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by GRAPEVINE-COLLEYVILLE ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.