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JERRY & LINDA MOORE MIDDLE
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 43 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 21 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 JERRY & LINDA MOORE MIDDLE
JERRY & LINDA MOORE MIDDLE is an expansive 6-8 campus in CELINA, Texas, one of the schools within CELINA ISD. The school hosts 1,219 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 90% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.
Within CELINA ISD, which oversees 8 schools and 5,324 students, JERRY & LINDA MOORE MIDDLE is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, JERRY & LINDA MOORE MIDDLE lists that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 19% Asian, 19% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% multiracial.
In terms of school funding signals, JERRY & LINDA MOORE MIDDLE reports 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Collin County's rate of about 30%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, JERRY & LINDA MOORE MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 66.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 55.7%.
Around the school, census data for Collin County shows 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 JERRY & LINDA MOORE MIDDLE is one.
Nearest neighbor: BOBBY RAY & AFTON MARTIN EL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around JERRY & LINDA MOORE MIDDLE. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JERRY & LINDA MOORE MIDDLE ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 55.2%.
The school occupies a low-density site.
Five-year trend. JERRY & LINDA MOORE MIDDLE's enrollment has ticked up 95% since 2018, when it stood at 626 (now 1,219). Asian enrollment moved from 1% to 19% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.
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