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MAUS MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 85 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 76 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 38 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 MAUS MIDDLE
Set in FRISCO, Texas, MAUS MIDDLE is a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school, run under FRISCO ISD. It caters to 830 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 29% bigger than the state mean of about 643.
Across the 76 schools in FRISCO ISD (65,289 students total), MAUS MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, MAUS MIDDLE records that 50% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 22% White, 15% Black, 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, MAUS MIDDLE has 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 18% of students at MAUS MIDDLE qualify 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 residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MAUS MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.2%; this one delivers 77.0%.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Collin County put median household income runs about $121,600, roughly 56% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Collin County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), of which MAUS MIDDLE is one.
The closest other public school is SEM EL, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MAUS MIDDLE comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 73.9%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 16%: 987 students in 2018 compared to 830 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share edged up from 32% to 50%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.
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Collin County at a glance
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