NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools TX

Best-Resourced Schools in Little Elm, TX

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11 public K-12 schools in Little Elm from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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11
Schools
7,861
Students
45.1/100
Avg Resource Index
15:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Little Elm has more public-school enrollment than 73% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Little Elm sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

6 of Little Elm's 11 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 28-point gap between Cesar Chavez El and North Texas Collegiate Academy-East Campus shows the range hidden by Little Elm's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 27%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
71st percentile
Teacher staffing
54th percentile

Little Elm H S accounts for 32.0% of all Little Elm public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Little Elm-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Little Elm school enrollment varies 252× across entities

Little Elm school enrollment ranges from 10 students (lowest) to 2,519 students (highest), a spread of 2,509 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Little Elm student-teacher ratio is 15.0:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Little Elm is typically wider than the Little Elm-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Cesar Chavez El 60
2. Lowell H Strike Middle 52
3. D H Brent El 52
4. Lakeview El 51
5. Jerry R Walker Middle 50
6. Robertson El 46
7. Little Elm H S 41
8. Catherine Bell El 34
9. Miller El 33
10. North Texas Collegiate Academy-East Campus 32
11. Denton Co J J a E P -

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Little Elm

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Lakeview El 74.6/100
  2. 2 Robertson El 73.1/100
  3. 3 Cesar Chavez El 73.0/100
  4. 4 Lowell H Strike Middle 72.7/100
  5. 5 Jerry R Walker Middle 70.6/100

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Which Little Elm school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Cesar Chavez El has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Little Elm schools in this federal-data comparison at 60/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Little Elm, TX? ▼

Little Elm has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,861 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 15:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.