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DAVIS INT
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 30 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 DAVIS INT
As a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in WYLIE, Texas, DAVIS INT works with 957 students from grades 5 through 6, run under WYLIE ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so DAVIS INT sits 49% bigger than that benchmark.
WYLIE ISD runs 29 schools in total, collectively educating 25,007 students. DAVIS INT is one of those campuses.
Demographically, DAVIS INT shows that 42% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 18% Asian, 18% Black, 17% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 54% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.9:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 24% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, DAVIS INT performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.3%, the actual is 62.9%, a residual of -0.5 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Collin County put median household income runs about $121,600, about 56% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Collin County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), DAVIS INT is one campus in the mix.
FRANK MCMILLAN J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DAVIS INT comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 72.5%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Five-year trend. DAVIS INT's enrollment has rose 20% since 2018, when it stood at 799 (now 957). The White share of enrollment decreased from 55% to 42% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.
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