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RODRIGUEZ MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 25 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 RODRIGUEZ MIDDLE
Located at 8650 MARTOP RD, in OAK POINT, Texas, RODRIGUEZ MIDDLE is a moderately sized intermediate school that instructs 612 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within DENTON ISD.
RODRIGUEZ MIDDLE is one of 46 schools operated by DENTON ISD, a district that serves 33,329 students overall.
In terms of who attends, RODRIGUEZ MIDDLE reports that 40% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 25% Hispanic, 24% White, 8% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Denton County as a whole is about 11% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, RODRIGUEZ MIDDLE shows 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting RODRIGUEZ MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RODRIGUEZ MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.3%, the actual is 39.5%, a residual of -9.8 points.
Across the wider county, Denton County reports that median household earnings sit near $111,498, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. RODRIGUEZ MIDDLE is one of 267 public schools in Denton County (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students).
The closest other public school is CROSS OAKS EL, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RODRIGUEZ MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, RODRIGUEZ MIDDLE comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 34.5%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RODRIGUEZ MIDDLE has ticked down 7%, going from 661 students in 2018 to 612 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 52% to 24% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.
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Denton County at a glance
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