SCOTT MORGAN JOHNSON MIDDLE

Set in MCKINNEY, Texas, SCOTT MORGAN JOHNSON MIDDLE is a high-enrollment intermediate school, part of MCKINNEY ISD. It hosts 1,108 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 72% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

SCOTT MORGAN JOHNSON MIDDLE is one of 33 schools operated by MCKINNEY ISD, a district that serves 23,296 students overall.

Demographically, SCOTT MORGAN JOHNSON MIDDLE reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 32%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 26% White, 25% Black, 10% Asian, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, SCOTT MORGAN JOHNSON MIDDLE has 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 41% of students at SCOTT MORGAN JOHNSON MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Collin County (around 30%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SCOTT MORGAN JOHNSON MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.9%; this one delivers 56.8%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Collin County) logs that median household income runs about $121,600, about 56% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Collin County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), of which SCOTT MORGAN JOHNSON MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: MCKINNEY NORTH H S, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SCOTT MORGAN JOHNSON MIDDLE ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 52.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. SCOTT MORGAN JOHNSON MIDDLE's enrollment has grew 21% since 2018, when it stood at 918 (now 1,108). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 34% to 26%.

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