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Clifton Early Childhood
Dallas County · Region 10: Richardson · 412 students
Clifton Early Childhood is rated C by TEA, scoring 78 out of 100 for 2025-26 — above the 77.4 average of the 2,290 schools serving a similar share of economically disadvantaged students, and below the statewide average of 81.3. It is down 12 points since 2021-22 — both years scored under TEA's current rules, since TEA rewrote them in 2023; under the rules in force back then it scored 87.
Ranks 4,963rd of 7,646 Texas schools (tied with 264 others), and 773rd of 1,157 in Region 10: Richardson (tied with 34 others).
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5 years of ratings
2021-22 is shown under the refreshed methodology TEA adopted in 2023, so it is comparable with later years. Under the original scoring it was rated B with 87 that year.
| Year | Rating | Score | Similar | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | C | 78 | 77.4 | 81.3 |
| 2024-25 | C | 76 | 77.1 | 81.2 |
| 2023-24 | C | 73 | 74.2 | 78.9 |
| 2022-23 | D | 68 | 74.6 | 79.1 |
| 2021-22 | A | 90 | 81.8 | 83.7 |
How this school's change over time is ranked
TEA publishes most measures for one year only, so a change ranking exists just where the same figure is published across years — the overall score, the five score domains, and per-student spending. This page does not yet state where Clifton Early Childhood itself places on these lists, only that the lists exist; open one to find this school's own row.
Texas schools
Where the score comes from
Texas builds the overall rating from the better of Student Achievement and School Progress, weighted 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. School Progress is itself the better of Academic Growth and Relative Performance. The 60, 70, 80 and 90 rules mark the letter-grade thresholds.
- Clifton Early Childhood
- Similar student population (2,290)
- Region 10: Richardson (1,157)
| Domain | Score | Grade | Points to next grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Student Achievement | — | Not rated | — |
| School Progress | — | Not rated | — |
| Closing the Gaps | — | Not rated | — |
| Academic Growth | — | Not rated | — |
| Relative Performance | — | Not rated | — |
Who this school serves
Placed after the results deliberately: this is context for reading them, not an explanation of them.
- Students
- 412
- Economically disadvantaged
- 84.0%−0.7 pts vs similar
- English learners
- 71.6%+38.1 pts vs similar
- Special education
- 12.9%−5.5 pts vs similar
- Attendance
- —
- Chronically absent
- —
Student demographics
- African American 25%
- Hispanic 48.5%
- White 7%
- American Indian 1.5%
- Asian 16%
- Two or More Races 1.9%
Spending per student
Compared against TEA's own peer group, which controls for size and student population, and against the state.
- Clifton Early Childhood
- TEA peer group
- Texas average
TEA's published file does not include peer-group spending for this entity, so no comparison is shown.
Not reported by TEA for this entity: peer.
Teachers
- Average salary
- $66,068−$1,466 vs similar
- Teachers
- 21
- Students per staff member
- 19.6
Teaching experience
- Beginning 23.8%
- 1 to 5 years 19%
- 6 to 10 years 14.3%
- 11 to 20 years 28.6%
- 21 to 30 years 4.8%
- Over 30 years 9.5%
Where this comes from
Every figure on this page comes from data the Texas Education Agency publishes at txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026 and archived with a checksum so each number stays traceable to the bytes TEA served.
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link here — 9,086 entities in two formats is 18,172 assets, on top of everything else this site
publishes, and that is past the 20,000-asset limit this site is published under. This campus is a row
in the bulk files on the download page, keyed by its TEA id 057912161.