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NAVO MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 7 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 NAVO MIDDLE
NAVO MIDDLE operates as a reasonably sized middle-grades school in AUBREY, Texas, overseen by DENTON ISD. Current enrollment sits at 699 students spanning grades 6 through 8.
Across the 46 schools in DENTON ISD (33,329 students total), NAVO MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, NAVO MIDDLE shows that the largest single group is Black at 51%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 21% Hispanic, 18% White, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Denton County as a whole is about 11% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, NAVO MIDDLE logs 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting NAVO MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 55% of students at NAVO MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, NAVO MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.0%, the actual is 36.3%, a residual of -13.7 points.
In the broader community, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Denton County's 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), NAVO MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: PALOMA CREEK EL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NAVO MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, NAVO MIDDLE comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.7%.
NAVO MIDDLE operates from a residential location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NAVO MIDDLE has declined 25%, going from 937 students in 2018 to 699 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 45% to 18% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.
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