Rita Smith Elem

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 A with 96 that year.

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 Rita Smith Elem 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.

• Student Achievement94 A+5.4 vs similar · +14.5 vs region
• School Progress91 A+6.4 vs similar · +9.2 vs region
• Closing the Gaps95 A+9.6 vs similar · +15.6 vs region
• Academic Growth91 A+10.0 vs similar · +13.9 vs region
• Relative Performance91 A+11.1 vs similar · +13.2 vs region

• Rita Smith Elem
• Similar student population (951)
• Region 10: Richardson (1,157)

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 (94), so School Progress (91) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 94.

Student outcomes

STAAR performance

• Approaches grade level
• Meets grade level
• Masters grade level
• Tick: Similar student population (951)

Percentage of tests at or above each level. Masters is a subset of Meets, which is a subset of Approaches. The tick on each bar marks the average for Similar student population (951 schools) — a comparison TEA does not publish.

Who this school serves

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

Students

500

Economically disadvantaged

27.8%−1.0 pts vs similar

English learners

19.2%+9.0 pts vs similar

Special education

24.8%+7.6 pts vs similar

Attendance

96.1%+0.8 pts vs similar

Chronically absent

6.1%−4.1 pts vs similar

Student demographics

• African American 11.2%
• Hispanic 15.2%
• White 48.6%
• American Indian 0.2%
• Asian 18%
• Pacific Islander 0.4%
• Two or More Races 6.4%

Spending per student

Compared against TEA's own peer group, which controls for size and student population, and against the state.

• Rita Smith Elem
• 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

$71,411+$3,027 vs similar

Teachers

36

Students per staff member

13.8

Teaching experience

• Beginning 8.3%
• 1 to 5 years 30.3%
• 6 to 10 years 16.5%
• 11 to 20 years 20.1%
• 21 to 30 years 24.8%

Where this school ranks best

Out of 76 rankings computed across every published metric and every comparison group, these are the placements that stand out. Press Copy for a citable sentence.

• 17of 293

  Math — Masters

  Collin County · of the 293 that report this measure · tied with 4

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• 21of 930

  Math — Masters

  Similar student population · of the 930 that report this measure · tied with 1

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• 31of 1,110

  Math — Masters

  Region 10: Richardson · of the 1,110 that report this measure · tied with 4

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• 35of 930

  Math — Meets

  Similar student population · of the 930 that report this measure · tied with 4

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• 36of 1,102

  Closing the Gaps

  Region 10: Richardson · of the 1,102 that report this measure · tied with 12

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• 42of 930

  All Subjects — Masters

  Similar student population · of the 930 that report this measure · tied with 3

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• 43of 1,110

  Math — Approaches

  Region 10: Richardson · of the 1,110 that report this measure · tied with 14

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• 47of 1,110

  All Subjects — Masters

  Region 10: Richardson · of the 1,110 that report this measure · tied with 9

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• 49of 1,110

  Math — Meets

  Region 10: Richardson · of the 1,110 that report this measure · tied with 8

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• 49of 930

  Math — Approaches

  Similar student population · of the 930 that report this measure · tied with 11

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• 96of 7,258

  Math — Masters

  Texas average · of the 7,258 that report this measure · tied with 7

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• 165of 7,260

  All Subjects — Masters

  Texas average · of the 7,260 that report this measure · tied with 23

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These are selected high placements, not a summary. Every figure above this section is the full picture, including where this campus ranks poorly. Each statement below states its cohort and its denominator so it can be checked — a rank without an n is a boast, not a fact. Ties are shown because a shared ceiling is not a sole first place. Every ranking this site publishes, including the ones no school would put in a press release.

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.

Download the full dataset · this campus's district

Single-file records are pre-built for districts only, so there is no per-campus CSV to 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 043914108.