WILKINSON MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 70 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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%.
About WILKINSON MIDDLE
Set in FRISCO, Texas, WILKINSON MIDDLE is an average-sized middle school, one of the schools within FRISCO ISD. It caters to 668 students across grades 6 through 8.
FRISCO ISD comprises 76 schools with combined enrollment of 65,289 students; WILKINSON MIDDLE is among them.
Demographically, WILKINSON MIDDLE shows that the most-represented group is Asian (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 19% White, 14% Black, 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Denton County as a whole is about 11% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 10% of students at WILKINSON MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WILKINSON MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.4%, the actual is 74.8%, a residual of +5.5 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Denton County) records that the typical household earns roughly $111,498 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Denton County's 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), WILKINSON MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.
PANTHER CREEK H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WILKINSON MIDDLE ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 66.8%.
WILKINSON MIDDLE operates from a countryside location.
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