Jenny Preston Elementary School

Size

Of the 16 elementary schools in Allen ISD, Jenny Preston Elementary School is the 4th largest, with 3.5% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 620; Jenny Preston Elementary School is close to their typical size.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 6 with 117 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 80, against an average of 104 per grade. This year grade 6 has 46% more students than kindergarten (117 against 80). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Asian students: 43.3% here and 29.9% across Allen ISD. White students are next, at 31.3%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

9.4% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 22% across Allen ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 44.54 full-time-equivalent teachers for 726 students, Jenny Preston Elementary School has 16.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 726 students would have about 49.1 teachers, so Jenny Preston Elementary School has 4.6 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Jenny Preston Elementary School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Jesse McGowen Elementary School, 1 miles away in McKinney ISD. Within 10 miles there are 117 other elementary schools, 37 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.