GENE PIKE MIDDLE

GENE PIKE MIDDLE is a middle-grades school of expansive scale in JUSTIN, Texas, one of the schools within NORTHWEST ISD, enrolling 1,137 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 77% above typical.

Across the 37 schools in NORTHWEST ISD (32,098 students total), GENE PIKE MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, GENE PIKE MIDDLE lists that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 28% Hispanic, 12% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian.

On the resource side, GENE PIKE MIDDLE shows 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 29% of students at GENE PIKE MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, GENE PIKE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.4%, the actual is 54.7%, a residual of -6.7 points.

In the surrounding community, Denton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $111,498 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Denton County runs 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), of which GENE PIKE MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is NORTHWEST H S, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, GENE PIKE MIDDLE comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 47.4%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 22%: 933 students in 2018 compared to 1,137 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 65% to 51%.

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