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SCOGGINS MIDDLE
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 64 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 37 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 19 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 SCOGGINS MIDDLE
As a mid-sized middle school in MCKINNEY, Texas, SCOGGINS MIDDLE hosts 809 students from grades 7 through 8, part of FRISCO ISD. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 26% above typical.
Within FRISCO ISD, which oversees 76 schools and 65,289 students, SCOGGINS MIDDLE is one campus in the system.
On demographics, SCOGGINS MIDDLE lists that the largest single group is Asian at 35%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 25% White, 19% Black, 14% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 21% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Collin County's rate of about 30%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SCOGGINS MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.5%, the actual is 65.7%, a residual of +1.2 points.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Collin County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $121,600 per year, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Collin County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), of which SCOGGINS MIDDLE is one.
Nearest neighbor: WORTHAM INT, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SCOGGINS MIDDLE comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 69.2%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SCOGGINS MIDDLE has shrank 19%, going from 1,001 students in 2018 to 809 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 47% to 25% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.
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Collin County at a glance
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