Sumeer Elememtary, Melissa TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Sumeer Elememtary

Sumeer Elementary is a regular public elementary school serving prekindergarten through fifth grade in Melissa, a rapidly growing suburban community in north-central Collin County, about forty miles northeast of Dallas. The school enrolls a diverse student body of about eight hundred children across all early-grade cohorts. Roughly one student in five qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. The school population is racially mixed, with substantial representation from Asian, White, and Black families, along with Hispanic and other groups.

The academic picture at Sumeer shows moderate performance with uneven strength across subjects. In English language arts, the school's standing improves noticeably with grade level. Third graders show just-above-half proficiency, while fourth graders edge above that baseline, and fifth graders achieve proficiency at a notably higher rate. Math proficiency tracks lower and more flat across grades three through five, hovering slightly above half. Science results for fifth grade—the only grade tested in this subject—sit at about half proficiency. On the statewide "approaches" measures, meaning students showing foundational skill, the school reports strong attainment across all tested subjects. Performance at the "meets" and "master" levels, by contrast, is more limited. The school's overall proficiency index places it above the midpoint among Collin County's districts, a meaningful but not exceptional position.

Melissa itself is a master-planned, family-oriented suburb experiencing steep growth. The town has evolved from a farm community into one of the county's fastest-growing cities over the past two decades, with new single-family neighborhoods continuing to expand along highways and displacing the former rural character. Most residents own their homes. Street life and retail remain car-oriented and dispersed rather than walkable, though the city has launched a downtown redevelopment initiative aimed at adding pedestrian infrastructure and gathering spaces over time. A newly announced master-planned community north of downtown is projected to bring hundreds of additional homes. Grocery stores arrived only recently. A landfill and feedlot nearby can occasionally produce odors.

The school district itself is shaping the outlook for families relocating or enrolling children here. Melissa ISD passed a substantial bond in May 2025 designed to fund new elementary schools, a middle school, a ninth-grade campus, an early childhood center, renovations, expanded bus service, and technology upgrades, all intended to manage the district's rapid enrollment growth over the coming decade. The earlier 2021 bond has already delivered three new schools and major additions to the high school, making the district's expansion concrete and visible. Beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, the district will adjust school start times and shift to a tiered bus system, a daily-schedule change families should prepare for. More pedagogically, the district is launching Cardinal Ridge Academy, a new choice elementary modeled on International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme with project-based learning and an accelerated math track; the district's gifted and talented services are moving to that school, meaning a family with an identified gifted student may want to weigh that option.

Sumeer is situated in this growth context as one of several elementary feeders into the broader system. The school serves a mid-sized enrollment typical for the area and grade band. Testing data comes from the 2024-25 school year only, so longer trends are not available. A parent may want to discuss with the school what instructional strategies are in place to narrow the gap between "approaches" and "meets" proficiency, particularly in math, and to understand how the school engages with the district's broader curriculum and choice offerings as families consider Melissa ISD's pathway.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 352%

School 52% · District 67% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Grade 453%

School 53% · District 64% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 554%

School 54% · District 67% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 355%

School 55% · District 69% · ▼ 14 pts below district

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Grade 464%

School 64% · District 72% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▲ 15 pts above state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 574%

School 74% · District 78% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 20 pts above state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

Science

Grade 548%

School 48% · District 58% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▲ 25 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

This schoolMELISSA ISD, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income37%Higher-income61%24 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income38%Higher-income76%38 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income58%Higher-income81%23 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income39%Higher-income56%17 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income24%Higher-income67%43 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income25%Higher-income66%41 pp gap