PILOT POINT SELZ MIDDLE

PILOT POINT SELZ MIDDLE is a small middle school in PILOT POINT, Texas, one of the schools within PILOT POINT ISD. The school caters to 378 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so PILOT POINT SELZ MIDDLE sits 41% smaller than that benchmark.

Within PILOT POINT ISD, which oversees 4 schools and 1,619 students, PILOT POINT SELZ MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, PILOT POINT SELZ MIDDLE lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 42% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Denton County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 48% of students at PILOT POINT SELZ MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Denton County (around 35%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PILOT POINT SELZ MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.0%, the actual is 40.2%, a residual of -12.7 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Denton County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $111,498 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. PILOT POINT SELZ MIDDLE is one of 267 public schools in Denton County (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students).

The closest other public school is PILOT POINT EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER, roughly 0.2 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PILOT POINT SELZ MIDDLE comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 52.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PILOT POINT SELZ MIDDLE has climbed 67%, going from 227 students in 2018 to 378 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 52% to 42% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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