STALEY MIDDLE

STALEY MIDDLE, a medium-sized intermediate school in FRISCO, Texas, operated by FRISCO ISD, works with 591 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

STALEY MIDDLE is one of 76 schools operated by FRISCO ISD, a district that caters to 65,289 students overall.

On the student-mix side, STALEY MIDDLE shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 29% White, 15% Black, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the resource side, STALEY MIDDLE logs 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Collin County's rate of about 30%.

After controlling for student poverty, STALEY MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.3%, the actual is 50.6%, a residual of -2.6 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Collin County put median household earnings sit near $121,600, about 56% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Collin County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), STALEY MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY - FRISCO is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), STALEY MIDDLE ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 63.1%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. STALEY MIDDLE's enrollment has edged down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 662 (now 591). The White share of enrollment shrank from 39% to 29% over that span.

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