ARMSTRONG MIDDLE

ARMSTRONG MIDDLE, a compact 6-8 campus in PLANO, Texas, part of PLANO ISD, enrolls 490 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so ARMSTRONG MIDDLE sits 24% smaller than that benchmark.

ARMSTRONG MIDDLE is one of 73 schools operated by PLANO ISD, a district that hosts 46,612 students overall.

Looking at the student body, ARMSTRONG MIDDLE reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 59% of enrollment; the rest looks like 16% White, 16% Black, 7% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, ARMSTRONG MIDDLE records 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 82% of students at ARMSTRONG MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Collin County (around 30%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, ARMSTRONG MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.1%, the actual is 37.3%, a residual of -0.8 points.

In the surrounding community, Collin County reports that the typical household earns roughly $121,600 per year, roughly 56% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. ARMSTRONG MIDDLE is one of 338 public schools in Collin County (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students).

FORMAN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ARMSTRONG MIDDLE. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ARMSTRONG MIDDLE ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 49.0%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 31%: 708 students in 2018 compared to 490 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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