SANGER MIDDLE

Located at 105 N BERRY, in SANGER, Texas, SANGER MIDDLE is a tight-knit junior high that hosts 426 students (grades 7 through 8), run under SANGER ISD. That puts it 34% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

SANGER ISD comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,880 students; SANGER MIDDLE is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SANGER MIDDLE records that the largest single group is White at 54%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 35% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Denton County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, SANGER MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 51.4%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Denton County) shows that 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. Across Denton County's 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), SANGER MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is LINDA TUTT H S, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SANGER MIDDLE at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 53.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SANGER MIDDLE has increased 5%, going from 405 students in 2018 to 426 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 71% to 54%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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