Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
ARGYLE WEST
School pathway
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 24 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% 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 WEST
ARGYLE WEST operates as a moderately sized elementary campus in ARGYLE, Texas, part of ARGYLE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 643 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so ARGYLE WEST sits 24% larger than that benchmark.
Across the 8 schools in ARGYLE ISD (6,166 students total), ARGYLE WEST accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, ARGYLE WEST records that White students make up the majority at 60%; the rest looks like 19% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Denton County as a whole.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 4% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Denton County (around 35%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
With demographic context factored in, ARGYLE WEST performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.0%, the actual is 69.5%, a residual of -2.5 points.
Around the school, Denton County reports that median household earnings sit near $111,498, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Denton County runs 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), of which ARGYLE WEST is one.
The closest other public school is JANE RUESTMANN EL, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ARGYLE WEST comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 66.8%.
ARGYLE WEST operates from a town-center location.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Denton County at a glance
View full county profileQuick facts
Related schools
- ARGYLE H SHigh · 1,644 students
- ARGYLE MIDDLEMiddle · 969 students
- JANE RUESTMANN ELElementary · 846 students
- HILLTOP ELElementary · 788 students
- ARGYLE SOUTH ELElementary · 783 students
- ARGYLE 6TH GRADE CENTERMiddle · 492 students
- ARGYLE MIDDLEMiddle · 969 students
- JANE RUESTMANN ELElementary · 846 students
- HILLTOP ELElementary · 788 students
- LANCE THOMPSON ELElementary · 701 students
- ARGYLE 6TH GRADE CENTERMiddle · 492 students
- JANE RUESTMANN EL0.6 mi · 846
- LANCE THOMPSON EL0.8 mi · 701
- JOHNIE R DANIEL EL1.7 mi · 593
- ARGYLE 6TH GRADE CENTER2.4 mi · 492
- ARGYLE MIDDLE2.5 mi · 969
- ARGYLE SOUTH EL2.8 mi · 783