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Shepard Elem

Collin County · Region 10: Richardson · 394 students

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Current score
86/1002025-26
Change
+2 ptssince 2021-22
Score vs similar economic context
−3.4 ptsvs 89.4 average · 813 rated schools serving a similar economic context
Similar economic-disadvantage rate placement
639 of 813tied with 31 others
B86

At a glance

Under TEA’s current rules, the available rating history is moving up; under the rules in force back then it scored 84 in 2021-22. The current score is below the 89.4 average for 813 rated schools serving a similar economic context.

Evidence worth noticing

Strengths and momentum

Selected positive signals, not a summary of performance. The same rules choose them on every page: only the latest one-year gain, results meaningfully better than the currently selected comparison with broad reporting, and distinctive top-three placements. Demographics, staffing and spending cannot become academic “wins.” The overall rating and the full results below remain the complete picture for this school.

Read the full rating context and placement

Shepard Elem is rated B by TEA, scoring 86 out of 100 for 2025-26 — below the 89.4 average for 813 rated schools serving a similar economic context. It is up 2 points since 2021-22.

Ranks 639th of 813 rated schools serving a similar economic context (tied with 31 others).

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

5 years of ratings

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Compare against
908070 Similar economic-disadvantage rateTexas averageShepard Elem 8480838986 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 B with 84 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
2025-26B8689.4 813 reporting81.3 7,646 reporting
2024-25B8989.5 808 reporting81.2 7,554 reporting
2023-24B8388.3 791 reporting78.9 7,466 reporting
2022-23B8088.7 775 reporting79.1 7,377 reporting
2021-22B8489.7 762 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 Achievement89 B−1.3 vs similar economic context · 800 reporting
  • School Progress85 B−0.7 vs similar economic context · 798 reporting
  • Closing the Gaps79 C−7.9 vs similar economic context · 795 reporting
  • Academic Growth85 B+1.8 vs similar economic context · 789 reporting
  • Relative Performance70 C−9.5 vs similar economic context · 798 reporting
  • Shepard Elem
  • Similar economic-disadvantage rate (813 in cohort)
Domain scores
DomainScoreGradePoints to next grade
Student Achievement89B1
School Progress85B5
Closing the Gaps79C1
Academic Growth85B5
Relative Performance70C10

Closest to moving up: Student Achievement, 1 point below A 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 (89), so School Progress (85) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 89.

Student outcomes

STAAR performance

All Subjects

  • Approaches grade level81%−6 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 800 reporting
  • Meets grade level61%−9 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 800 reporting
  • Masters grade level35%−4 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 800 reporting
Reading3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level88%−1 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 800 reporting
  • Meets grade level70%−4 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 800 reporting
  • Masters grade level44%+3 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 800 reporting
Math3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level78%−8 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 798 reporting
  • Meets grade level59%−6 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 798 reporting
  • Masters grade level36%+3 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 798 reporting
Science3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level70%−18 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 740 reporting
  • Meets grade level41%−26 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 740 reporting
  • Masters grade level9%−31 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 740 reporting
  • Approaches grade level
  • Meets grade level
  • Masters grade level
  • Tick: Similar economic-disadvantage rate (813 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
394
Economically disadvantaged
21.3%−0.9 pts vs similar economic context
English learners
7.4%−2.8 pts vs similar economic context
Special education
21.8%+5.1 pts vs similar economic context
Attendance
95.9%+0.3 pts vs similar economic context
Chronically absent
7.8%−0.9 pts vs similar economic context

Student demographics

Shepard Elem

African American: 5.8%Hispanic: 15.2%White: 61.4%American Indian: 0.5%Asian: 10.7%Two or More Races: 6.3%
  • African American 5.8%
  • Hispanic 15.2%
  • White 61.4%
  • American Indian 0.5%
  • Asian 10.7%
  • Two or More Races 6.3%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 813 reporting for every category shown · 813 in full cohort

African American: 7.8%Hispanic: 25.1%White: 48.4%American Indian: 0.3%Asian: 12.9%Pacific Islander: 0.1%Two or More Races: 5.3%
  • African American 7.8%
  • Hispanic 25.1%
  • White 48.4%
  • American Indian 0.3%
  • Asian 12.9%
  • Pacific Islander 0.1%
  • Two or More Races 5.3%

Student counts behind the percentages

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

Students in this TEA accountability summary
394
Economically disadvantaged students
84
Emergent bilingual students
29
Special education students
86

Campus mobility · 2024–25

Mobile students
37
Students in TEA mobility denominator
360
TEA-published mobility rate
10.3%

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 394 students in 2025–26, a decrease of 6 (1.5%) from 2024–25.

Latest enrollment
394

2025–26

Change from 2024–25
−6

Decrease · −1.5%

Change since 2021–22
−10

Decrease · −2.5%

Enrollment in 2025–26

This school
394
Selected comparison
867.7

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 808 rated schools reporting

Student enrollment by school year for Shepard Elem
School yearStudents enrolledShepard ElemChange from previous school yearAverage enrollmentselected comparison
2021–22 404 First available year 884.8
2022–23 426 Increase of 22 (5.4%) 891.8
2023–24 433 Increase of 7 (1.6%) 885.5
2024–25 400 Decrease of 33 (7.6%) 877.8
2025–26 394 Decrease of 6 (1.5%) 867.7

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
10

2.4% of cumulative year-end enrollment

Disciplinary actions
14

3.30 per 100 students

Cumulative year-end enrollment
424

2024–25

Share of students · 2024–25

This school
2.4%
Selected comparison
7.2%

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 569 rated schools reporting

−4.8 pts vs similar economic context

Actions per 100 students · 2024–25

This school
3.3
Selected comparison
13.9

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 650 rated schools reporting

−10.6 vs similar economic context
TEA all-discipline student and action counts by school year for Shepard Elem
School yearCumulative enrollmentStudentsall disciplineStudents% of enrollmentActionsall disciplineActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
2020–21 437 Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
2021–22 433 Suppressed — 14 3.23 — 14.5
2022–23 456 10 2.2% 16 3.51 7.7% 14.9
2023–24 447 13 2.9% 22 4.92 7.4% 14.5
2024–25 424 10 2.4% 14 3.30 7.2% 13.9
See 2024–25 discipline categories
TEA discipline categories for Shepard Elem in 2024–25
CategoryStudentsStudents% of enrollmentActionsActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
All discipline 10 2.4% 14 3.30 7.2% 13.9
In-school suspensions Suppressed — 12 2.83 — 11
Out-of-school suspensions Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
DAEP placements Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
Mandatory DAEP placements Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
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$15k$22k20182020202220242025
  • Shepard Elem
  • Parent district: Plano ISD
  • Texas average
  • Selected comparison: Similar economic-disadvantage rate

Spending per student · 2025

This school
$11,452
Selected comparison
$11,072

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 807 rated schools reporting

+$381 vs similar economic context

For 2025, TEA reported $11,452 per student for this campus, $21,349 per student for its parent district, Plano 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
YearShepard ElemParent district: Plano ISDTexas averageSelected comparison averageReportingselected comparison
2018$8,389$14,443$13,054$7,415 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 712 rated schools reporting
2019$8,681$15,018$13,108$7,484 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 728 rated schools reporting
2020$8,511$14,436$14,058$7,813 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 738 rated schools reporting
2021$9,380$14,483$14,797$8,366 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 744 rated schools reporting
2022$11,417$15,185$15,708$9,401 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 761 rated schools reporting
2023$9,733$15,274$16,792$9,904 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 776 rated schools reporting
2024$10,218$17,470$18,125$11,000 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 791 rated schools reporting
2025$11,452$21,349$18,972$11,072 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 807 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
$69,515+$713 vs similar economic context
Teachers
29−26.1 vs similar economic context
Students per staff member
13.5−1.4 vs similar economic context

Teaching experience

Shepard Elem

Beginning: 3.4%1 to 5 years: 39.4%6 to 10 years: 30.5%11 to 20 years: 18.5%21 to 30 years: 8.2%
  • Beginning 3.4%
  • 1 to 5 years 39.4%
  • 6 to 10 years 30.5%
  • 11 to 20 years 18.5%
  • 21 to 30 years 8.2%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 813 reporting for every category shown · 813 in full cohort

Beginning: 4.7%1 to 5 years: 22.7%6 to 10 years: 20%11 to 20 years: 32.5%21 to 30 years: 17%Over 30 years: 3%
  • Beginning 4.7%
  • 1 to 5 years 22.7%
  • 6 to 10 years 20%
  • 11 to 20 years 32.5%
  • 21 to 30 years 17%
  • Over 30 years 3%

Average students in a class

TEA average class size by grade or subject for Shepard Elem in 2024–25
Grade or subjectAverage students per classShepard Elem · 2024–25Average students per classselected comparison
Kindergarten18.918.8
Grade 118.619.1
Grade 221.719.7
Grade 318.121.1
Grade 417.320.4
Grade 517.921.9

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 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.

Download the full dataset · this campus's district

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 043910108.