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Virgie Witt Smothermon Elem

Collin County · Region 10: Richardson · 738 students

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Current score
84/1002025-26
Score vs similar economic context
−7.4 ptsvs 91.4 average · 516 rated schools serving a similar economic context
Similar economic-disadvantage rate placement
493 of 516tied with 5 others
B84

At a glance

The current score is below the 91.4 average for 516 rated schools serving a similar economic context.

Evidence worth noticing

Strengths and momentum

No academic result met this site’s published threshold for a selected positive signal against Similar economic-disadvantage rate.

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

Virgie Witt Smothermon Elem is rated B by TEA, scoring 84 out of 100 for 2025-26 — below the 91.4 average for 516 rated schools serving a similar economic context. TEA has published 1 year of scores for this school, so there is no trend to read yet.

Ranks 493rd of 516 rated schools serving a similar economic context (tied with 5 others).

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  1. Overview
  2. 1 year of ratings
  3. Where the score comes from
  4. Student outcomes
  5. Who this school serves
  6. Student counts behind the percentages
  7. Teachers
  8. Where this comes from

1 year of ratings

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Compare against
908070 84 2025-26

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
2025-26B8491.4 516 reporting81.3 7,646 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 Achievement88 B−4.6 vs similar economic context · 507 reporting
  • School Progress73 C−14.7 vs similar economic context · 505 reporting
  • Closing the Gaps76 C−13.0 vs similar economic context · 502 reporting
  • Academic Growth73 C−13.2 vs similar economic context · 502 reporting
  • Relative Performance58 F−20.4 vs similar economic context · 505 reporting
  • Virgie Witt Smothermon Elem
  • Similar economic-disadvantage rate (516 in cohort)
Domain scores
DomainScoreGradePoints to next grade
Student Achievement88B2
School Progress73C7
Closing the Gaps76C4
Academic Growth73C7
Relative Performance58F2

Closest to moving up: Student Achievement, 2 points 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 (88), so School Progress (73) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 88.

Student outcomes

STAAR performance

All Subjects

  • Approaches grade level84%−7 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 507 reporting
  • Meets grade level61%−15 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 507 reporting
  • Masters grade level29%−17 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 507 reporting
Reading3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level90%−3 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 507 reporting
  • Meets grade level70%−10 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 507 reporting
  • Masters grade level34%−16 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 507 reporting
Math3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level82%−8 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 505 reporting
  • Meets grade level60%−12 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 505 reporting
  • Masters grade level29%−13 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 505 reporting
Science3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level73%−16 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 468 reporting
  • Meets grade level37%−32 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 468 reporting
  • Masters grade level13%−30 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 468 reporting
  • Approaches grade level
  • Meets grade level
  • Masters grade level
  • Tick: Similar economic-disadvantage rate (516 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
738
Economically disadvantaged
8.4%−2.2 pts vs similar economic context
English learners
26.9%+16.2 pts vs similar economic context
Special education
17.4%+2.0 pts vs similar economic context
Attendance
—
Chronically absent
—

Student demographics

Virgie Witt Smothermon Elem

African American: 14.5%Hispanic: 6.6%White: 18%American Indian: 2.8%Asian: 52.8%Pacific Islander: 0.1%Two or More Races: 5%
  • African American 14.5%
  • Hispanic 6.6%
  • White 18%
  • American Indian 2.8%
  • Asian 52.8%
  • Pacific Islander 0.1%
  • Two or More Races 5%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 516 reporting for every category shown · 516 in full cohort

African American: 5.1%Hispanic: 18%White: 48.7%American Indian: 0.5%Asian: 22%Pacific Islander: 0.1%Two or More Races: 5.7%
  • African American 5.1%
  • Hispanic 18%
  • White 48.7%
  • American Indian 0.5%
  • Asian 22%
  • Pacific Islander 0.1%
  • Two or More Races 5.7%

Student counts behind the percentages

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

Students in this TEA accountability summary
737
Economically disadvantaged students
62
Emergent bilingual students
198
Special education students
128

TEA context labels

  • New campus compared with last year’s fall enrollment

Campus mobility · 2024–25

Mobile students
Not reported
Students in TEA mobility denominator
Not reported
TEA-published mobility rate
Not reported

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.

Teachers

Average salary
$67,766−$1,603 vs similar economic context
Teachers
48−8.0 vs similar economic context
Students per staff member
15.4+0.6 vs similar economic context

Teaching experience

Virgie Witt Smothermon Elem

Beginning: 20.9%1 to 5 years: 38.3%6 to 10 years: 6.1%11 to 20 years: 26.6%21 to 30 years: 8.4%
  • Beginning 20.9%
  • 1 to 5 years 38.3%
  • 6 to 10 years 6.1%
  • 11 to 20 years 26.6%
  • 21 to 30 years 8.4%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 516 reporting for every category shown · 516 in full cohort

Beginning: 4.3%1 to 5 years: 23.7%6 to 10 years: 20.1%11 to 20 years: 31.8%21 to 30 years: 16.9%Over 30 years: 2.5%
  • Beginning 4.3%
  • 1 to 5 years 23.7%
  • 6 to 10 years 20.1%
  • 11 to 20 years 31.8%
  • 21 to 30 years 16.9%
  • Over 30 years 2.5%

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 043912120.