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How has COBB MIDDLE changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
798
Middle
DISTRICT 856 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FRISCO ISD·NCES 482001012481
Cobb Middle School
9400 TEEL PKWY, FRISCO, TX 75034 · (469) 633-4300 · Denton County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL798 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 78% of Texas public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
58 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
127 students
DISTRICT 15% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 248 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 281 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 269 | 34% |
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
82.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +59.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
65.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +34.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 59 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 34 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 56.0% | 26.0% | 12.0% | 6.0% |
| Mathematics | 35.0% | 30.0% | 22.0% | 13.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 82.0% | 65.0% |
| 2024-25 | 79.0% | 63.0% |
| 2023-24 | 79.0% | 61.0% |
| 2022-23 | 69.0% | 62.0% |
| 2021-22 | 61.0% | 42.0% |
| 2020-21 | 23.0% | 31.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
66.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.9%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Cobb Middle School
Cobb Middle School's state test result (66.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cobb Middle School this school | 798 | 15.9% | 66.6% |
| Murphy Middle School MURPHY | 901 | 19.5% | 72.1% |
| Hunt Middle School FRISCO | 852 | 19.8% | 72.6% |
| Stafford Middle School FRISCO | 946 | 15.6% | 64.2% |
| Schimelpfenig Middle School PLANO | 826 | 17.2% | 79.4% |
| Smith Middle School CYPRESS | 1,091 | 21.1% | 79.2% |
Matched among Texas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Cobb Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Denton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.6% | #143 of 1,635 | #11 of 44 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #204 of 1,670 ▲ 26 | #14 of 47 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #92 of 1,670 ▲ 39 | #9 of 47 ▲ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +8.0pp | #916 of 1,570 | #25 of 44 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 798 | #566 of 1,749 | #24 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #547 of 1,542 | #18 of 47 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.8% | #65 of 1,543 | #6 of 47 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.9% | #1,590 of 1,648 | #31 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.9% | #463 of 942 | #12 of 25 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
798
-89 (-10%) vs 2020
+24% since 2010-11, when it was 643
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 14.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 798 | 57.7 | 13.8:1 | 16% (127) |
| 2023-24 | 853 | 63.2 | 13.5:1 | 15% (125) |
| 2022-23 | 905 | 66.6 | 13.6:1 | 14% (131) |
| 2020-21 | 887 | 61 | 14.5:1 | 13% (119) |
| 2017-18 | 949 | 63.3 | 15.0:1 | 9% (90) |
| 2015-16 | 951 | 64 | 14.9:1 | 7% (70) |
| 2010-11 | 643 | 46 | 14.0:1 | 6% (41) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cobb Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (949 to 798); teachers down 9% (63.3 to 57.7).
About Cobb Middle School
Cobb Middle School is a mid-sized middle school in FRISCO, Texas. The school offers grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 798 students. That puts enrollment 24% above the 643-student average for middle schools in Texas.
FRISCO ISD enrolls 65,289 students, and its 76 schools include Cobb Middle School.
No group is above 50% at Cobb Middle School; the largest is White, at 35%. The school is also 33% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 11% Black, and 4% multiracial. The White share of the county population is higher, at 57%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Cobb Middle School scores 73%.
Classroom staffing at Cobb Middle School totals 57.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.8:1. It is about the same as the 14.4:1 average for middle schools in Texas. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Cobb Middle School is about 16%. The average for public schools in Denton County is 35%.
Cobb Middle School holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 78% of Texas public middle schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Cobb Middle School, the prediction is 66.9% and the result is 66.6%.
In the wider Denton County area, the median household earns about $111,498 a year, about 49% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Cobb Middle School shares Denton County with 266 other public schools.
Cobb Middle School's closest public school neighbor is Fisher Elementary School, about 0.4 miles away. Within five miles of Cobb Middle School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Of 7 schools in the immediate area with test results, Cobb Middle School ranks 5th on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 89 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Denton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
979,561
Census ACS
Median income
$111,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
267
175,222 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FRISCO ISD
- Wakeland High SchoolHigh · 2,230 students
- Reedy High SchoolHigh · 2,201 students
- Lebanon Trail High SchoolHigh · 2,173 students
- Centennial High SchoolHigh · 2,018 students
- Lone Star High SchoolHigh · 2,004 students
- Heritage High SchoolHigh · 1,996 students
Other schools in FRISCO
- Rock Hill High SchoolHigh · 2,442 students
- Wakeland High SchoolHigh · 2,230 students
- Reedy High SchoolHigh · 2,201 students
- Lebanon Trail High SchoolHigh · 2,173 students
- Centennial High SchoolHigh · 2,018 students
- Lone Star High SchoolHigh · 2,004 students
Nearby schools
- Fisher Elementary School0.4 mi · 643
- Leadership Prep School0.5 mi · 500
- Leadership Prep School Secondary0.7 mi · 891
- Carroll Elementary School0.8 mi · 551
- Corbell Elementary School1.1 mi · 509
- Pink Elementary School1.2 mi · 593
Frequently asked questions
About Cobb Middle SchoolHow large is Cobb Middle School?
Cobb Middle School enrolls approximately 798 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Cobb Middle School serve?
Cobb Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Cobb Middle School have?
Cobb Middle School employs 58 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Cobb Middle School?
Student demographics at Cobb Middle School are roughly 35% White, 16% Hispanic, 11% Black, 33% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Cobb Middle School?
Cobb Middle School is overseen by FRISCO ISD in Denton County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.