PEARSON MIDDLE

PEARSON MIDDLE is one of the high-enrollment junior highs in FRISCO, Texas, operated by FRISCO ISD, with 1,032 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so PEARSON MIDDLE sits 60% above that benchmark.

Across the 76 schools in FRISCO ISD (65,289 students total), PEARSON MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, PEARSON MIDDLE lists that the most-represented group is Asian (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 31% White, 10% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Denton County as a whole is about 11% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, PEARSON MIDDLE has 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 5% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PEARSON MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 71.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 83.5%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Denton County indicate the typical household earns roughly $111,498 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PEARSON MIDDLE is one of 267 public schools in Denton County (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students).

Nearest neighbor: BLEDSOE EL, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PEARSON MIDDLE at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 75.1%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. PEARSON MIDDLE's enrollment has ticked up 34% since 2018, when it stood at 770 (now 1,032). Over the same period, the Asian share expanded from 31% to 49%.

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