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ARGYLE SOUTH EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 76 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 21 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 24 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
About ARGYLE SOUTH EL
ARGYLE SOUTH EL operates as a big elementary school in FLOWER MOUND, Texas, one of the schools within ARGYLE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 783 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so ARGYLE SOUTH EL sits 51% bigger than that benchmark.
Within ARGYLE ISD, which oversees 8 schools and 6,166 students, ARGYLE SOUTH EL is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, ARGYLE SOUTH EL logs that 50% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 24% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black.
On the resource side, On paper, ARGYLE SOUTH EL has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 10% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Denton County (around 35%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
After controlling for student poverty, ARGYLE SOUTH EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.5%, the actual is 76.2%, a residual of +6.7 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Denton County put median household income runs about $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 SOUTH EL is one of 267 public schools in Denton County (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students).
The closest other public school is ARGYLE H S, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ARGYLE SOUTH EL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 65.1%.
The campus sits in a town-based setting.
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