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MEMORIAL H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 34 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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%.
About MEMORIAL H S
Located at 12300 FRISCO ST, in FRISCO, Texas, MEMORIAL H S is a substantial high school that works with 1,439 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within FRISCO ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 81% above the state mean of about 796.
Within FRISCO ISD, which oversees 76 schools and 65,289 students, MEMORIAL H S is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, MEMORIAL H S logs that the largest single group is White at 34%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 26% Asian, 19% Hispanic, 15% Black, 5% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 54%.
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 108 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Collin County (around 30%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
With demographic context factored in, MEMORIAL H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.3%, the actual is 68.1%, a residual of +2.9 points.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Collin County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $121,600 per year, 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 MEMORIAL H S is one.
FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY - FRISCO is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MEMORIAL H S ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 67.6%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
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Collin County at a glance
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