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PANTHER CREEK H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 6 points since 2022, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 PANTHER CREEK H S
Located at 1875 PGA PKWY, in FRISCO, Texas, PANTHER CREEK H S is a big high school that educates 1,253 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by FRISCO ISD. That puts it 57% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
Within FRISCO ISD, which oversees 76 schools and 65,289 students, PANTHER CREEK H S is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, PANTHER CREEK H S reports that the largest single group is Asian at 33%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 26% White, 23% Black, 13% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 11% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 91 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, PANTHER CREEK H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 66.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 67.5%.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Denton County put the typical household earns roughly $111,498 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Denton County runs 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), of which PANTHER CREEK H S is one.
WILKINSON MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PANTHER CREEK H S comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 69.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
On allk12, members of the PANTHER CREEK H S community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
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