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MARCUS H S
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MARCUS H S
MARCUS H S operates as a sizable four-year high school in FLOWER MOUND, Texas, operated by LEWISVILLE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 2,998 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 277% above the state mean of about 796.
MARCUS H S is one of 62 schools operated by LEWISVILLE ISD, a district that educates 47,876 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, MARCUS H S reports that White students make up the majority at 62%. The remainder looks like 18% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 4% Black, 4% multiracial.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 202 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 10% of students at MARCUS H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Denton County's rate of about 35%.
With demographic context factored in, MARCUS H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.5%, the actual is 79.3%, a residual of +9.8 points.
Around the school, Denton County reports that median household income runs about $111,498, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Denton County's 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), MARCUS H S is one campus in the mix.
PRAIRIE TRAIL EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MARCUS H S. On composite proficiency, MARCUS H S comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.1%.
MARCUS H S operates from an outer-ring location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MARCUS H S has ticked down 8%, going from 3,274 students in 2018 to 2,998 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 72% to 62% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.
On this page, members of the MARCUS H S community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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