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LONE STAR H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 29 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 69% 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 LONE STAR H S
LONE STAR H S is a high-enrollment 9-12 campus in FRISCO, Texas, overseen by FRISCO ISD. The school instructs 2,004 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 152% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
LONE STAR H S is one of 76 schools operated by FRISCO ISD, a district that caters to 65,289 students overall.
On demographics, LONE STAR H S reports that the largest single group is White at 34%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 25% Asian, 17% Hispanic, 16% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 57% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 131 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 16% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Denton County's rate of about 35%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LONE STAR H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 67.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 69.0%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Denton County indicate the typical household earns roughly $111,498 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Denton County runs 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), of which LONE STAR H S is one.
Nearest neighbor: PHILLIPS EL, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LONE STAR H S. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LONE STAR H S at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 68.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LONE STAR H S has contracted 6%, going from 2,131 students in 2018 to 2,004 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 47% to 34% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.
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