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CROSS TIMBERS MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 54 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 44 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CROSS TIMBERS MIDDLE
CROSS TIMBERS MIDDLE is one of the reasonably sized middle-grades schools in GRAPEVINE, Texas, part of GRAPEVINE-COLLEYVILLE ISD, with 820 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 28% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.
GRAPEVINE-COLLEYVILLE ISD runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 13,541 students. CROSS TIMBERS MIDDLE is one of those campuses.
Demographically, CROSS TIMBERS MIDDLE shows that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 34% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 7% Black, 5% multiracial.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 35% of students at CROSS TIMBERS MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CROSS TIMBERS MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 65.9%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate median household income runs about $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CROSS TIMBERS MIDDLE is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).
The closest other public school is GRAPEVINE H S, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CROSS TIMBERS MIDDLE comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 63.8%.
The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 4%: 851 students in 2018 compared to 820 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 52% to 42%.
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