Pilot Point Selz Middle School

In PILOT POINT, Texas, Pilot Point Selz Middle School is a low-enrollment middle school. Students in grades 6 through 8 make up the school's enrollment of 378 students. Middle schools in Texas average about 643 students, which makes this school 41% below average.

PILOT POINT ISD has 4 schools and 1,619 students, and Pilot Point Selz Middle School is one of those schools.

The student body at Pilot Point Selz Middle School has no majority group. Hispanic students lead at 50%. The next largest groups are 42% White, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. The school's Hispanic share is 30 points above the 21% share among Denton County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 57%.

Staffing at Pilot Point Selz Middle School comes to 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.0:1. It is about the same as the 14.4:1 average for middle schools in Texas. On the income side, 48% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 13 points above the 35% average for public schools in Denton County.

After adjusting for student poverty, Pilot Point Selz Middle School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Texas schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 40.5%; the prediction is 53.2%.

Denton County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $111,498 a year, roughly 49% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Pilot Point Selz Middle School shares Denton County with 266 other public schools.

Pilot Point Early Childhood Center sits about 0.2 miles from Pilot Point Selz Middle School. There are 3 other public schools within five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Pilot Point Selz Middle School is 7th on average proficiency.

By NCES locale, the school is Rural: Distant, or in rural territory some distance from an urban area.

The 2020-21 count was 207 students and the 2024-25 count was 378. A difference that large may reflect a change in which grades the school serves. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 10.9:1 in 2020-21 to 14.0:1 in 2024-25.

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