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Enrollment
1,064
Middle
DISTRICT 1,018 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WYLIE ISD·NCES 484653005296
Grady Burnett Junior High School
516 HILLTOP, WYLIE, TX 75098 · (972) 429-3200 · Collin County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,064 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 90% 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.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+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
15.8:1
68 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.0:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
302 students
DISTRICT 30% · 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 7 | 536 | 50% |
| Grade 8 | 528 | 50% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
73.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +34.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
70.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +28.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 70 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 34 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 28 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 49.0% | 24.0% | 16.0% | 11.0% |
| Mathematics | 37.0% | 33.0% | 13.0% | 17.0% |
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 | 73.0% | 70.0% |
| 2024-25 | 73.0% | 68.0% |
| 2023-24 | 74.0% | 64.0% |
| 2022-23 | 58.0% | 57.0% |
| 2021-22 | 49.0% | 40.0% |
| 2020-21 | 39.0% | 42.0% |
% 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
66.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.6%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% 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%.
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 Grady Burnett Junior High School
Grady Burnett Junior High School's state test result (66.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grady Burnett Junior High School this school | 1,064 | 28.4% | 66.9% |
| Ab Harrison Intermediate School WYLIE | 1,093 | 29.3% | 66.4% |
| Doerre Intermediate School KLEIN | 1,188 | 28.7% | 71.3% |
| Cox Intermediate School SPRING | 1,053 | 26.5% | 60.7% |
| Frank McMillan Junior High School WYLIE | 1,011 | 26.9% | 70.3% |
| Dr Jack Cockrill Middle School MCKINNEY | 1,210 | 22.3% | 68.2% |
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 Grady Burnett Junior High School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Collin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.9% | #140 of 1,635 | #23 of 51 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #144 of 1,670 ▲ 19 | #22 of 57 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #239 of 1,670 ▼ 3 | #32 of 57 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +14.0pp | #571 of 1,570 | #23 of 52 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,064 | #219 of 1,749 | #16 of 57 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #1,044 of 1,542 | #37 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.5% | #178 of 1,543 | #31 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 28.4% | #1,466 of 1,648 | #24 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +37.8% | #64 of 437 | #6 of 20 |
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
1,064
+156 (+17%) vs 2020
+65% since 1990-91, when it was 646
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 16.5:1
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 | 1,064 | 67.5 | 15.8:1 | 28% (302) |
| 2023-24 | 1,034 | 65.6 | 15.8:1 | 31% (318) |
| 2022-23 | 1,025 | 62.2 | 16.5:1 | 30% (303) |
| 2020-21 | 908 | 55 | 16.5:1 | 29% (264) |
| 2017-18 | 772 | 49.6 | 15.6:1 | 26% (199) |
| 2015-16 | 707 | 44 | 16.1:1 | 31% (216) |
| 2010-11 | 652 | 42 | 15.5:1 | 32% (206) |
| 2000-01 | 716 | 49 | 14.6:1 | 9% (64) |
| 1990-91 | 646 | 32 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Grady Burnett Junior High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 38% (772 to 1,064); teachers up 36% (49.6 to 67.5).
About Grady Burnett Junior High School
Grady Burnett Junior High School is a public middle-grades school run by WYLIE ISD in WYLIE, Texas. The school reports 1,064 students in grades 7 through 8. The typical figure for middle schools in Texas is about 643 students.
WYLIE ISD enrolls 19,401 students, and its 21 schools include Grady Burnett Junior High School.
Grady Burnett Junior High School's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 47%. After that, the student body is 21% Hispanic, 16% Black, 10% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Grady Burnett Junior High School has a diversity index of 69%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The count of teachers at Grady Burnett Junior High School is 67.5 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 15.8:1. Among middle schools in Texas, the typical ratio is 14.4:1. The school counts 302 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 28%. Across public schools in Collin County, the average is about the same, 30%.
Grady Burnett Junior High School is graded A by allk12, scoring above 90% of Texas public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On BeatsExpectations, Grady Burnett Junior High School is 5.3 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Texas schools.
Census estimates describe Collin County this way: median household income is about $121,600, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 56% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Federal data list 338 public schools in Collin County, with a combined enrollment of about 227,575.
Nearest public school: Achieve Academy, less than a tenth of a mile away. The five-mile area around Grady Burnett Junior High School holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 71.6% on proficiency, and Grady Burnett Junior High School is below that at 66.9%.
NCES describes the area around Grady Burnett Junior High School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Grady Burnett Junior High School saw enrollment rise 17% between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
The Grady Burnett Junior High School community page is open for posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Collin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,163,337
Census ACS
Median income
$121,600
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
56%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
338
227,575 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WYLIE ISD
- Wylie High SchoolHigh · 3,189 students
- Wylie East High SchoolHigh · 2,709 students
- Ab Harrison Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 1,093 students
- Raymond B Cooper Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,019 students
- Frank McMillan Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,011 students
- Dr Al Draper IntermedMiddle · 963 students
Other schools in WYLIE
- Wylie High SchoolHigh · 3,189 students
- Wylie East High SchoolHigh · 2,709 students
- Ab Harrison Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 1,093 students
- Raymond B Cooper Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,019 students
- Frank McMillan Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,011 students
- Dr Al Draper IntermedMiddle · 963 students
Nearby schools
- Achieve Academy0.1 mi · 133
- Ab Harrison Intermediate School0.4 mi · 1,093
- R F Hartman Elementary School0.6 mi · 518
- P M Akin Elementary School0.8 mi · 583
- Wally Watkins Elementary School1.0 mi · 832
- T F Birmingham Elementary School1.4 mi · 522
Frequently asked questions
About Grady Burnett Junior High SchoolHow many students attend Grady Burnett Junior High School?
Grady Burnett Junior High School enrolls approximately 1,064 students in grades 07-08.
What age range does Grady Burnett Junior High School serve?
Grady Burnett Junior High School serves students from grade 07 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Grady Burnett Junior High School?
Approximately 15.8:1 students per teacher at Grady Burnett Junior High School.
What is the student diversity at Grady Burnett Junior High School?
Student demographics at Grady Burnett Junior High School are roughly 47% White, 21% Hispanic, 16% Black, 10% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Grady Burnett Junior High School public or private?
Grady Burnett Junior High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by WYLIE ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.