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BRIARHILL MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BRIARHILL MIDDLE
Set in HIGHLAND VILLAGE, Texas, BRIARHILL MIDDLE is a mid-sized middle school, part of LEWISVILLE ISD. It educates 801 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so BRIARHILL MIDDLE sits 25% larger than that benchmark.
Within LEWISVILLE ISD, which oversees 62 schools and 47,876 students, BRIARHILL MIDDLE is one campus in the system.
Demographically, BRIARHILL MIDDLE logs that White students make up the majority at 69%; the rest is composed of 16% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Denton County as a whole is about 57% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, The school lists 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 10% of students at BRIARHILL MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, BRIARHILL MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 69.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 65.5%.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Denton County) reports that median household income runs about $111,498, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. BRIARHILL MIDDLE is one of 267 public schools in Denton County (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students).
MCAULIFFE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BRIARHILL MIDDLE. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BRIARHILL MIDDLE ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 66.4%.
The school occupies a suburban site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BRIARHILL MIDDLE has contracted 7%, going from 865 students in 2018 to 801 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 76% to 69% across the same window.
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