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GUYER H S
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 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 41 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 15 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 72% 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 GUYER H S
GUYER H S is a senior high of expansive scale in DENTON, Texas, part of DENTON ISD, teacheing 2,577 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 224% bigger than typical.
DENTON ISD runs 46 schools in total, collectively educating 33,329 students. GUYER H S is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, GUYER H S shows that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 31% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial.
On the resource side, On paper, GUYER H S has 171 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, GUYER H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.2%, the actual is 72.4%, a residual of +9.2 points.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Denton County put 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%. GUYER H S is one of 267 public schools in Denton County (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students).
MCNAIR EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, GUYER H S comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 58.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 2,524 students in 2018 compared to 2,577 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 63% to 51% across the same window.
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Denton County at a glance
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