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MARCUS H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 66 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 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 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.
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