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TIBBALS EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 85 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 85 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 18 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 67% 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 18 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About TIBBALS EL
Set in WYLIE, Texas, TIBBALS EL is a mid-tier elementary school, overseen by WYLIE ISD. It enrolls 609 students across grades pre-K through 4.
Within WYLIE ISD, which oversees 29 schools and 25,007 students, TIBBALS EL is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, TIBBALS EL reports that the largest single group is Asian at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 34% White, 12% Black, 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting TIBBALS EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 16% of students at TIBBALS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Collin County's rate of about 30%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), TIBBALS 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 67.1%; TIBBALS EL posts 84.7%, +17.6 points above that line.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Collin County put median household earnings sit near $121,600, about 56% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Collin County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), TIBBALS EL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: R V GROVES EL, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TIBBALS EL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 71.8%.
TIBBALS EL operates from a residential location.
Five-year trend. TIBBALS EL's enrollment has shrank 11% since 2018, when it stood at 686 (now 609). Asian enrollment moved from 30% to 43% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
Collin County at a glance
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