NCES CCD 2024-25 12 schools TX

Best-Resourced Schools in Royse City, TX

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

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12
Schools
8,687
Students
37.4/100
Avg Resource Index
15.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Royse City has more public-school enrollment than 76% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Royse City 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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

6 of Royse City's 12 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 27-point gap between Pioneer Technology (Ptaa) Royse City El and Glenda Arnold Early Childhood Learning Center shows the range hidden by Royse City'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 24%
School count
Top 31%
Resource Index average
34th percentile
Teacher staffing
45th percentile

Royse City H S accounts for 32.6% of all Royse City public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Royse City-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

Royse City school enrollment varies 1417× across entities

Royse City school enrollment ranges from 2 students (lowest) to 2,834 students (highest), a spread of 2,832 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

Royse City student-teacher ratio is 15.8:1 — 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 Royse City is typically wider than the Royse City-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

2 of Royse City's 12 listed schools are charters

17% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

# School Score
1. Pioneer Technology (Ptaa) Royse City El 44
2. Ruth Cherry El 43
3. Harry Herndon El 43
4. Davis El 42
5. John & Barbara Roderick El 40
6. W R (Bill) Fort El 39
7. Ouida Baley Middle 37
8. Anita Scott El 37
9. Education Center International Academy 3 36
10. Royse City H S 33
11. Glenda Arnold Early Childhood Learning Center 17
12. Collin County Jjaep -

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Royse City

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 Pioneer Technology (Ptaa) Royse City El 71.4/100
  2. 2 Anita Scott El 70.4/100
  3. 3 Ruth Cherry El 69.8/100
  4. 4 Glenda Arnold Early Childhood Learning Center 69.4/100
  5. 5 W R (Bill) Fort El 68.2/100

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Which Royse City school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Pioneer Technology (Ptaa) Royse City El has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Royse City schools in this federal-data comparison at 44/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Royse City, TX? ▼

Royse City has 12 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,687 students. 2 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.8:1.

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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.