Mohawk El, Richardson TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Mohawk El

Mohawk Elementary sits at Mimosa Drive in Richardson, a school of roughly five hundred students in pre-K through sixth grade. It is a regular public school within Richardson ISD, a district serving the tech-corridor city of Dallas's northern suburbs. The school's student body is predominantly white, with smaller shares of Asian, Hispanic, and multiracial students; very few students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a neighborhood of substantial household resources.

Testing results for the current school year show mixed strength across subjects. In English language arts, Mohawk performs solidly. Third through sixth graders show consistent reading and writing proficiency across the grade band, with most grades at or above eighty percent of students meeting or exceeding state standards. This is a genuine academic strength and one a parent would want to build on.

Mathematics tells a less even story. Third graders reach solid proficiency. Fifth graders perform particularly well, with a strong majority at or above standard. Fourth and sixth grades sit in the upper seventies to low eighties, competent but plainly below third and fifth. The fourth-grade math result especially dips, and a parent considering this school may want to ask the school directly whether there is a known instructional shift at that grade level and whether the pattern appears in prior years. Science poses a particular area of concern. Fifth graders, the only grade tested in science at this school, show less than half the cohort at or above standard. This is well below the school's performance in reading and math, and a parent may want to look into this further with the school. Social studies results remain limited; the data does not provide detailed grade-by-grade breakdowns for that subject, only school-wide aggregates, making a finer read impossible.

The broader context in which Mohawk sits includes significant district-level changes. Richardson ISD voters approved a substantial bond package in November 2025 funding a new Career and Technical Education Center serving all four high schools and completion of a district-wide shift from junior high to middle school. The district is moving sixth grade from elementary campuses to middle schools serving grades 6–8. Two campuses made this shift in the 2024–25 school year; the remaining six are on track to make the transition by 2028. This means Mohawk Elementary, which currently serves sixth grade, will ultimately serve only pre-K through fifth grade. That reconfiguration will reshape how and when students transition to middle school.

Richardson itself is economically strong, anchored by major employers in technology, telecommunications, insurance, and healthcare. State Farm, Raytheon, RealPage, and BlueCross BlueShield of Texas are based there, as are companies like AT&T, Texas Instruments, Cisco, and Verizon. The University of Texas at Dallas operates as a major research campus and employer within the city limits. Housing values and rents in the 75080 zip code where Mohawk sits are well above state and national benchmarks, reflecting the neighborhood's professional, educated population. The city's downtown CORE District is undergoing a transformation with new public safety facilities, public art, roadway and pedestrian improvements, and adaptive reuse projects, signaling ongoing investment.

For a family considering Mohawk, the picture is one of solid reading and math results with a notable weakness in science. The school sits in a highly resourced neighborhood in a district undergoing major structural changes. A parent would want to understand the near-term reality of sixth-grade instruction here before it transitions and to probe more deeply the science instruction to determine whether the proficiency gap reflects a resource or instructional design issue that might affect their child.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 377%

School 77% · District 15% · ▲ 62 pts above district

▲ 37 pts above state median · ▲ 42 pts above county median

Grade 468%

School 68% · District 11% · ▲ 57 pts above district

▲ 27 pts above state median · ▲ 31 pts above county median

Grade 587%

School 87% · District 51% · ▲ 36 pts above district

▲ 46 pts above state median · ▲ 49 pts above county median

Grade 682%

School 82% · District 47% · ▲ 35 pts above district

▲ 48 pts above state median · ▲ 52 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 382%

School 82% · District 20% · ▲ 62 pts above district

▲ 36 pts above state median · ▲ 45 pts above county median

Grade 485%

School 85% · District 21% · ▲ 64 pts above district

▲ 36 pts above state median · ▲ 39 pts above county median

Grade 584%

School 84% · District 30% · ▲ 54 pts above district

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 34 pts above county median

Grade 685%

School 85% · District 56% · ▲ 29 pts above district

▲ 33 pts above state median · ▲ 41 pts above county median

Science

Grade 549%

School 49% · District 1% · ▲ 48 pts above district

▲ 26 pts above state median · ▲ 30 pts above county median

This schoolRICHARDSON 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-income60%Higher-income84%24 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income63%Higher-income87%24 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income60%Higher-income89%29 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income60%Higher-income78%18 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income88%Higher-income87%1 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income30%Higher-income90%60 pp gap