STEM ACADEMY AT CLAYTON DOWNING MIDDLE

STEM ACADEMY AT CLAYTON DOWNING MIDDLE is one of the modestly sized intermediate schools in FLOWER MOUND, Texas, run under LEWISVILLE ISD, with 531 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

LEWISVILLE ISD runs 62 schools in total, collectively educating 47,876 students. STEM ACADEMY AT CLAYTON DOWNING MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, STEM ACADEMY AT CLAYTON DOWNING MIDDLE records that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 6% multiracial, 2% Black.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 7% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Denton County's rate of about 35%.

With demographic context factored in, STEM ACADEMY AT CLAYTON DOWNING MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.9%, the actual is 76.5%, a residual of +5.5 points.

Across the wider county, Denton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $111,498 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. STEM ACADEMY AT CLAYTON DOWNING MIDDLE is one of 267 public schools in Denton County (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students).

Nearest neighbor: STEM ACADEMY AT BRIDLEWOOD EL, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), STEM ACADEMY AT CLAYTON DOWNING MIDDLE ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 68.7%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. STEM ACADEMY AT CLAYTON DOWNING MIDDLE's enrollment has declined 3% since 2018, when it stood at 546 (now 531). Over the same period, the White share declined from 76% to 64%.

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