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FRANK MCMILLAN J H
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 71 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 32 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 21 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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 FRANK MCMILLAN J H
FRANK MCMILLAN J H is a junior high of big scale in WYLIE, Texas, operated by WYLIE ISD, works with 1,011 students in grades 7 through 8. That puts it 57% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.
Across the 29 schools in WYLIE ISD (25,007 students total), FRANK MCMILLAN J H accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, FRANK MCMILLAN J H logs that the largest single group is White at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 18% Hispanic, 18% Black, 15% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 54%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, FRANK MCMILLAN J H lists 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 27% of students at FRANK MCMILLAN J H qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
After controlling for student poverty, FRANK MCMILLAN J H tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 62.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 71.1%.
In the broader community, Collin County reports that median household earnings sit near $121,600, about 56% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Collin County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), of which FRANK MCMILLAN J H is one.
Nearest neighbor: DAVIS INT, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FRANK MCMILLAN J H. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FRANK MCMILLAN J H at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 71.5%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
Five-year trend. FRANK MCMILLAN J H's enrollment has increased 20% since 2018, when it stood at 846 (now 1,011). White enrollment moved from 52% to 43% across the same window.
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