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Denton Creek Elem

Dallas County · Region 10: Richardson · 604 students

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Current score
82/1002025-26
Change
−10 ptssince 2021-22
Score vs similar economic context
−7.6 ptsvs 89.6 average · 788 rated schools serving a similar economic context
Similar economic-disadvantage rate placement
702 of 788tied with 14 others
B82

At a glance

Under TEA’s current rules, the available rating history is moving down; under the rules in force back then it scored 92 in 2021-22. The current score is below the 89.6 average for 788 rated schools serving a similar economic context.

Evidence worth noticing

Strengths and momentum

Current strength

Chronically absent lower than the similar-context average

3.7% −4.6 pts vs 8.3%

  • 3.7% is 4.6 percentage points lower than the 8.3% average among 781 schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate reporting this measure.
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Denton Creek Elem is rated B by TEA, scoring 82 out of 100 for 2025-26 — below the 89.6 average for 788 rated schools serving a similar economic context. It is down 10 points since 2021-22.

Ranks 702nd of 788 rated schools serving a similar economic context (tied with 14 others).

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  1. Overview
  2. Official improvement and transfer notices
  3. 5 years of ratings
  4. Where the score comes from
  5. Student outcomes
  6. Who this school serves
  7. Student counts behind the percentages
  8. Enrollment over time
  9. Discipline and removal from class
  10. Spending per student
  11. Teachers and actual class size
  12. Where this school ranks best
  13. Where this comes from

Official improvement and transfer notices

Official state and federal designations can carry support, reporting requirements or a family transfer option that a single A–F rating does not explain.

2026 federal improvement status

Additional Targeted Support

Official support label: ATS

Identification reason: Economically Disadvantaged

TEA track year 1 · Title I campus

Open the official TEA list and methodology

Schools identified for improvement

This school
Listed
Selected comparison
3.9%

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 788 rated schools reporting

Schools on the PEG list

This school
Not listed
Selected comparison
0.0%

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 788 rated schools reporting

Selected comparison percentages are the share of reporting schools in that group found on each dated list. They are neutral prevalence context; changing the comparison never changes this school's official status.

These are dated TEA statuses, fetched 24 August 2026; they are not added to or subtracted from this site's rating.

5 years of ratings

Follow the solid line to see how this school has changed. Turn comparison lines on or off to add context.

Compare against
908070 Similar economic-disadvantage rateTexas averageDenton Creek Elem 9290909182 2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-26

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 A with 92 that year.

Comparison lines follow the current rated cohort backward through time. The table gives the number in that fixed cohort that reported a score each year; it can be smaller than cohort membership.

View the yearly scores and comparisons
Rating history with comparisons
YearRatingScoreSelected comparisonSimilar economic-disadvantage rateStateTexas average
2025-26B8289.6 788 reporting81.3 7,646 reporting
2024-25A9189.8 784 reporting81.2 7,554 reporting
2023-24A9088.7 768 reporting78.9 7,466 reporting
2022-23A9089.1 751 reporting79.1 7,377 reporting
2021-22A9290.1 736 reporting83.7 7,283 reporting

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.

  • Student Achievement85 B−5.6 vs similar economic context · 777 reporting
  • School Progress76 C−9.9 vs similar economic context · 775 reporting
  • Closing the Gaps76 C−11.0 vs similar economic context · 772 reporting
  • Academic Growth76 C−7.6 vs similar economic context · 766 reporting
  • Relative Performance60 D−19.4 vs similar economic context · 775 reporting
  • Denton Creek Elem
  • Similar economic-disadvantage rate (788 in cohort)
Domain scores
DomainScoreGradePoints to next grade
Student Achievement85B5
School Progress76C4
Closing the Gaps76C4
Academic Growth76C4
Relative Performance60D10

Closest to moving up: Closing the Gaps, 4 points below B in that domain — the nearest of the measures that count toward the overall rating.

TEA does not add the domains up. The overall score is the better of Student Achievement and School Progress at 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. For this school that better measure is Student Achievement (85), so School Progress (76) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 85.

Student outcomes

STAAR performance

All Subjects

  • Approaches grade level78%−10 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 777 reporting
  • Meets grade level56%−14 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 777 reporting
  • Masters grade level34%−6 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 777 reporting
Reading3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level84%−5 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 777 reporting
  • Meets grade level67%−8 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 777 reporting
  • Masters grade level40%−2 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 777 reporting
Math3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level75%−11 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 775 reporting
  • Meets grade level53%−13 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 775 reporting
  • Masters grade level33%−2 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 775 reporting
Science3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level68%−20 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 720 reporting
  • Meets grade level35%−32 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 720 reporting
  • Masters grade level23%−17 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 720 reporting
  • Approaches grade level
  • Meets grade level
  • Masters grade level
  • Tick: Similar economic-disadvantage rate (788 in cohort)

Percentage of tests at or above each level. Masters is a subset of Meets, which is a subset of Approaches. The selected-comparison tick on each bar marks the average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate — a comparison TEA does not publish.

Counts in the comparison controls describe full cohort membership, not the denominator of every average. Each average uses only schools for which TEA reported that measure; metric-specific reporting counts are shown on the STAAR, graduation and CCMR rows and may vary.

Who this school serves

Placed after the results deliberately: this is context for reading them, not an explanation of them.

Students
604
Economically disadvantaged
20.0%−0.8 pts vs similar economic context
English learners
42.4%+32.0 pts vs similar economic context
Special education
19.0%+2.3 pts vs similar economic context
Attendance
96.6%+0.9 pts vs similar economic context
Chronically absent
3.7%−4.6 pts vs similar economic context

Student demographics

Denton Creek Elem

African American: 4%Hispanic: 46.7%White: 18.2%American Indian: 0.3%Asian: 27%Two or More Races: 3.8%
  • African American 4%
  • Hispanic 46.7%
  • White 18.2%
  • American Indian 0.3%
  • Asian 27%
  • Two or More Races 3.8%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 788 reporting for every category shown · 788 in full cohort

African American: 7.6%Hispanic: 24.3%White: 48.3%American Indian: 0.3%Asian: 14%Pacific Islander: 0.1%Two or More Races: 5.4%
  • African American 7.6%
  • Hispanic 24.3%
  • White 48.3%
  • American Indian 0.3%
  • Asian 14%
  • Pacific Islander 0.1%
  • Two or More Races 5.4%

Student counts behind the percentages

Context only. These counts are not rankings, comparisons, or judgments about school quality.

Students in this TEA accountability summary
604
Economically disadvantaged students
121
Emergent bilingual students
256
Special education students
115

Campus mobility · 2024–25

Mobile students
45
Students in TEA mobility denominator
404
TEA-published mobility rate
11.1%

The mobility count and rate use TEA’s separate 2024–25 campus denominator shown above, not current enrollment. This site does not recalculate a missing rate.

The first figure is TEA’s student count for this accountability summary. It is a separate publication from the fall PEIMS enrollment shown above and can differ; this site does not substitute one for the other. Counts come from TEA’s 2025-26 accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026. A reported zero is shown as 0. Small-number and complementary masks, unavailable values, and blank not-reported fields stay separate and are never estimated. TEA masking definitions.

Enrollment over time

TEA-reported student enrollment for each available school year. Enrollment growth or decline is not a measure of school quality.

TEA reported 604 students in 2025–26, an increase of 107 (21.5%) from 2024–25.

Latest enrollment
604

2025–26

Change from 2024–25
+107

Increase · +21.5%

Change since 2021–22
+46

Increase · +8.2%

Enrollment in 2025–26

This school
604
Selected comparison
872.4

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 782 rated schools reporting

Student enrollment by school year for Denton Creek Elem
School yearStudents enrolledDenton Creek ElemChange from previous school yearAverage enrollmentselected comparison
2021–22 558 First available year 891.3
2022–23 532 Decrease of 26 (4.7%) 899.5
2023–24 546 Increase of 14 (2.6%) 890.4
2024–25 497 Decrease of 49 (9.0%) 882.6
2025–26 604 Increase of 107 (21.5%) 872.4

The selected comparison column is the average enrollment among reporting schools in that group. It changes with the comparison control; this school's own counts do not.

Source: TEA PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. TEA reports these counts from its fall student snapshot; changes compare adjacent reported school years.

These counts show how enrollment changed, not why. Attendance-zone changes, school openings or closures, grade reconfigurations, transfers and population shifts can affect the total.

Discipline and removal from class

TEA’s annual student and action counts, kept separate and divided only by the matching full-year enrollment. These figures describe removals from instruction, not a simple safe-or-unsafe score.

Students in TEA’s all-discipline count
Suppressed

Rate not available

Disciplinary actions
20

3.74 per 100 students

Cumulative year-end enrollment
535

2024–25

Actions per 100 students · 2024–25

This school
3.74
Selected comparison
13.1

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 627 rated schools reporting

−9.4 vs similar economic context
TEA all-discipline student and action counts by school year for Denton Creek Elem
School yearCumulative enrollmentStudentsall disciplineStudents% of enrollmentActionsall disciplineActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
2020–21 599 Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
2021–22 608 17 2.8% 34 5.59 7.1% 13.6
2022–23 582 30 5.2% 39 6.70 7.3% 14
2023–24 576 13 2.3% 16 2.78 7.0% 13.5
2024–25 535 Suppressed — 20 3.74 — 13.1
See 2024–25 discipline categories
TEA discipline categories for Denton Creek Elem in 2024–25
CategoryStudentsStudents% of enrollmentActionsActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
All discipline Suppressed — 20 3.74 — 13.1
In-school suspensions Suppressed — 20 3.74 — 10.4
Out-of-school suspensions Not reported — Not reported — — —
DAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory DAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary DAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —

Selected comparisons use rates, not raw counts, so differently sized schools can be read on the same basis. Each average uses only group members for which TEA reported that rate; this school's own counts and rates remain fixed.

Students, actions and incidents are different units. One student can receive multiple actions. The categories overlap, so they must not be added together. Rates use TEA's matching cumulative year-end enrollment, not the October enrollment shown elsewhere on this page.

Source: TEA Discipline Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. Suppressed values stay unavailable rather than being estimated. Use 2020–21 cautiously because remote instruction during the pandemic changed students' exposure to in-person discipline. TEA consolidated its separate action-group reports into this product in 2024–25; this trend uses only the stable “All discipline” heading.

Spending per student

The campus and its parent district stay fixed while the selected same-sector txschools.net comparison changes with the page-wide control. TEA's own peer group and statewide reference remain visible as separately published, fixed TEA references.

$7k$14k$21k20182020202220242025
  • Denton Creek Elem
  • Parent district: Coppell ISD
  • Texas average
  • Selected comparison: Similar economic-disadvantage rate

Spending per student · 2025

This school
$18,869
Selected comparison
$11,039

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 783 rated schools reporting

+$7,830 vs similar economic context

For 2025, TEA reported $18,869 per student for this campus, $19,999 per student for its parent district, Coppell ISD, $18,972 per student for the Texas average.

Not reported in this TEA campus finance record: TEA peer group.

View yearly spending figures
Spending per student by year
YearDenton Creek ElemParent district: Coppell ISDTexas averageSelected comparison averageReportingselected comparison
2018$8,275$16,953$13,054$7,374 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 688 rated schools reporting
2019$8,406$16,508$13,108$7,461 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 704 rated schools reporting
2020$8,361$13,424$14,058$7,754 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 715 rated schools reporting
2021$8,497$12,615$14,797$8,306 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 722 rated schools reporting
2022$12,140$13,617$15,708$9,438 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 736 rated schools reporting
2023$9,397$13,588$16,792$9,939 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 752 rated schools reporting
2024$10,335$17,514$18,125$10,901 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 768 rated schools reporting
2025$18,869$19,999$18,972$11,039 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 783 rated schools reporting

The selected-comparison reporting count is year-specific and can vary across the table. Dollar amounts are shown as TEA published them and are not adjusted for inflation.

Teachers and actual class size

Average salary
$71,227+$2,299 vs similar economic context
Teachers
45−10.1 vs similar economic context
Students per staff member
13.3−1.7 vs similar economic context

Teaching experience

Denton Creek Elem

Beginning: 6.6%1 to 5 years: 29.5%6 to 10 years: 26.4%11 to 20 years: 25.3%21 to 30 years: 12.1%
  • Beginning 6.6%
  • 1 to 5 years 29.5%
  • 6 to 10 years 26.4%
  • 11 to 20 years 25.3%
  • 21 to 30 years 12.1%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 788 reporting for every category shown · 788 in full cohort

Beginning: 4.5%1 to 5 years: 22.9%6 to 10 years: 19.9%11 to 20 years: 32.5%21 to 30 years: 17.2%Over 30 years: 2.9%
  • Beginning 4.5%
  • 1 to 5 years 22.9%
  • 6 to 10 years 19.9%
  • 11 to 20 years 32.5%
  • 21 to 30 years 17.2%
  • Over 30 years 2.9%

Average students in a class

TEA average class size by grade or subject for Denton Creek Elem in 2024–25
Grade or subjectAverage students per classDenton Creek Elem · 2024–25Average students per classselected comparison
Kindergarten17.518.8
Grade 117.519.1
Grade 22019.7
Grade 32021.2
Grade 420.720.4
Grade 519.321.9

These are TEA's actual class-size averages for the grade or subject shown, not the student-to-teacher ratio. TEA reported 6 of 12 categories for this campus; the categories are not combined into a made-up campus-wide average. Each selected comparison average uses only schools reporting that same grade or subject.

Source: TEA Texas Academic Performance Reports, fetched 24 August 2026.

Where this school ranks best

Out of 105 rankings computed across every published metric and every available comparison group, these are all the measures that meet this site’s distinctive-placement threshold. The list does not change when you change Compare against. Each measure appears once, using its strongest placement. Press Copy for a citable sentence.

Other top-5% rankings

High placements in larger reporting groups

3 measures

  • 28of 552

    Chronically absent (lowest is best)

    Dallas County · of the 552 that report this measure · tied with 2

  • 44of 783

    Per-student spending

    Similar economic-disadvantage rate · of the 783 that report this measure · tied with 1

  • 49of 1,107

    Attendance

    Region 10: Richardson · of the 1,107 that report this measure · tied with 16

These are selected high placements, not a summary. Every figure above this section is the full picture, including where this school ranks poorly. Each measure appears once here, using its strongest qualifying placement across all available comparison groups. Very large ties are left out because they do not distinguish this school; any tie that does appear is labeled. Every ranking this site publishes, including the ones no school would put in a press release.

Where this comes from

The Texas Education Agency publishes the underlying accountability reports and data downloads. Ratings, outcomes, demographics, staffing and finance on this page come from TEA data available through txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026. TEA’s Reports and Data Portal links the official bulk files. Enrollment history comes from TEA's PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations reports, fetched 24 August 2026. The student-count context comes from TEA’s bulk accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026; TEA’s masking definitions explain withheld values. The dated notice, staffing, discipline, transfer, community and postsecondary sections cite their separate TEA, Census or THECB publication in place. Every archived source carries checksums so each number stays traceable to the bytes the public agency served.

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Single-file records are pre-built for district-level records only, so there is no per-campus CSV to link here. Producing both formats for every entity would consume most of the 20,000-asset deployment limit before pages and shared data are counted. This campus is a row in the bulk files on the download page, keyed by its TEA id 057922111.