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ARGYLE MIDDLE
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 30 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 17 points.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ARGYLE MIDDLE
As a high-enrollment junior high in ARGYLE, Texas, ARGYLE MIDDLE hosts 969 students from grades 7 through 8, one of the schools within ARGYLE ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so ARGYLE MIDDLE sits 51% bigger than that benchmark.
Across the 8 schools in ARGYLE ISD (6,166 students total), ARGYLE MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, ARGYLE MIDDLE records that 57% of the student body identifies as White; the rest is composed of 20% Asian, 14% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Denton County as a whole.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting ARGYLE MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Denton County) reports that median household earnings sit near $111,498, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ARGYLE MIDDLE is one of 267 public schools in Denton County (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students).
Nearest neighbor: ARGYLE 6TH GRADE CENTER, around 1.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
ARGYLE MIDDLE operates from a countryside location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 43%: 679 students in 2018 compared to 969 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 81% to 57% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 in 2025.
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