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TRENT MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 38 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 32 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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 TRENT MIDDLE
TRENT MIDDLE is a middle school of average-sized scale in FRISCO, Texas, one of the schools within FRISCO ISD, works with 697 students in grades 6 through 8.
FRISCO ISD comprises 76 schools with combined enrollment of 65,289 students; TRENT MIDDLE is among them.
In terms of who attends, TRENT MIDDLE shows that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 27% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 9% Black, 8% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 9% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Denton County's rate of about 35%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, TRENT MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.1%; this one delivers 72.6%.
Across the wider county, Denton County reports that median household earnings sit near $111,498, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Denton County runs 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), of which TRENT MIDDLE is one.
Nearest neighbor: NEWMAN EL, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, TRENT MIDDLE comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 71.4%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 21%: 887 students in 2018 compared to 697 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share ticked up from 20% to 27%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.
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