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WYLIE EAST H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 31 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 18 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About WYLIE EAST H S
Located at 3000 WYLIE E DR, in WYLIE, Texas, WYLIE EAST H S is an expansive senior high that hosts 2,709 students (grades 9 through 12), run under WYLIE ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 240% larger than the state mean of about 796.
WYLIE ISD runs 29 schools in total, collectively educating 25,007 students. WYLIE EAST H S is one of those campuses.
Demographically, WYLIE EAST H S lists that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 18% Black, 11% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 54% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 158 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, WYLIE EAST H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 75.1%.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Collin County) shows that median household earnings sit near $121,600, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Collin County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), of which WYLIE EAST H S is one.
P M AKIN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WYLIE EAST H S. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WYLIE EAST H S at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 64.6%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WYLIE EAST H S has increased 47%, going from 1,846 students in 2018 to 2,709 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 53% to 43% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 in 2025.
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