WEATHERFORD EL

As a small K-5 school in PLANO, Texas, WEATHERFORD EL caters to 404 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of PLANO ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so WEATHERFORD EL sits 22% leaner than that benchmark.

PLANO ISD runs 73 schools in total, collectively educating 46,612 students. WEATHERFORD EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, WEATHERFORD EL records that 57% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 18% White, 15% Black, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 74% of students at WEATHERFORD EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Collin County runs at roughly 30%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WEATHERFORD EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.7%, the actual is 41.3%, a residual of -0.4 points.

Across the wider county, Collin County reports that median household income runs about $121,600, roughly 56% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Collin County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), WEATHERFORD EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ADULT TRANSITION CENTER, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WEATHERFORD EL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 17%: 487 students in 2018 compared to 404 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 39% to 57% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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