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What's the biggest difference between ATKINS MIDDLE and what you expected?
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Enrollment
433
Middle
DISTRICT 467 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LUBBOCK ISD·NCES 482850010894
Atkins Middle School
5401 AVE U, LUBBOCK, TX 79412 · (806) 219-3000 · Lubbock County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL433 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
386 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 137 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 136 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 160 | 37% |
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
34.0%
TX avg 54.5% . -7.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
14.0%
TX avg 45.3% . -19.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are down about 7 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 19 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 10.0% | 24.0% | 33.0% | 33.0% |
| Mathematics | 4.0% | 10.0% | 27.0% | 59.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 34.0% | 14.0% |
| 2024-25 | 48.0% | 19.0% |
| 2023-24 | 46.0% | 28.0% |
| 2022-23 | 50.0% | 27.0% |
| 2021-22 | 44.0% | 42.0% |
| 2020-21 | 41.0% | 33.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
31.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.6%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Atkins Middle School
Atkins Middle School's state test result (31.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atkins Middle School this school | 433 | 89.1% | 31.6% |
| Travis Intermediate School CONROE | 488 | 93.6% | 29.6% |
| Park View Intermediate School PASADENA | 532 | 89.5% | 43.0% |
| Iltexas Houston Windmill Lakes Middle School HOUSTON | 449 | 87.3% | 21.5% |
| Digital Arts & Technology Academy at Adams Middle School GRAND PRAIRIE | 542 | 88.9% | 30.7% |
| Daggett Middle School FORT WORTH | 353 | 90.4% | 19.4% |
Matched among Texas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Atkins Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Lubbock County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.6% | #1,330 of 1,635 | #16 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.0% | #1,648 of 1,670 ▼ 57 | #19 of 20 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #1,603 of 1,670 ▼ 553 | #18 of 20 ▼ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -14.5pp | #18 of 1,570 | #1 of 18 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 433 | #1,202 of 1,749 | #10 of 22 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #57 of 1,542 | #3 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.6% | #1,085 of 1,543 | #18 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.1% | #278 of 1,648 | #5 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.6% | #135 of 942 | #3 of 13 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
433
-150 (-26%) vs 2020
-14% since 2010-11, when it was 504
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 11.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 433 | 39.6 | 10.9:1 | 89% (386) |
| 2023-24 | 507 | 45.5 | 11.2:1 | 87% (442) |
| 2022-23 | 542 | 44.8 | 12.1:1 | 87% (471) |
| 2020-21 | 583 | 51 | 11.4:1 | 89% (521) |
| 2017-18 | 624 | 47.9 | 13.0:1 | 83% (518) |
| 2015-16 | 628 | 47 | 13.4:1 | 83% (520) |
| 2010-11 | 504 | 33 | 15.3:1 | 86% (433) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Atkins Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (624 to 433); teachers down 17% (47.9 to 39.6).
About Atkins Middle School
Atkins Middle School is a middle school in LUBBOCK, Texas, reachable at (806) 219-3000. It enrolls 433 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are 6 through 8. It has 33% fewer students than the average for middle schools in Texas (about 643).
LUBBOCK ISD has 24,237 students spread across 49 schools.
More than half of the students at Atkins Middle School are Hispanic (75%). The remaining shares are 13% Black and 10% White. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Lubbock County's population at about 36%. The diversity index for Atkins Middle School is 41%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Teacher count: 39.6 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 10.9:1. The gap from the 14.4:1 average for middle schools in Texas is 3.4 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 89%. The 57% average for public schools in Lubbock County is 32 points lower.
Atkins Middle School's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 31.6% is 4.0 points below the 35.6% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Looking at the county, Lubbock County, the median household earns about $64,155 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 33%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Counting Atkins Middle School, Lubbock County has 110 public schools.
Bayless Elementary School sits about 0.2 miles from Atkins Middle School. Atkins Middle School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The school's 31.6% average proficiency ranks 4th among 5 nearby schools.
The NCES locale for Atkins Middle School is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count fell 26% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Lubbock County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
318,884
Census ACS
Median income
$64,155
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
110
52,301 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LUBBOCK ISD
- Monterey High SchoolHigh · 2,117 students
- Lubbock High SchoolHigh · 1,927 students
- Coronado High SchoolHigh · 1,878 students
- Hutchinson Middle SchoolMiddle · 845 students
- Estacado High SchoolHigh · 787 students
- Evans Middle SchoolMiddle · 773 students
Other schools in LUBBOCK
- Monterey High SchoolHigh · 2,117 students
- Lubbock High SchoolHigh · 1,927 students
- Coronado High SchoolHigh · 1,878 students
- Lubbock-Cooper High SchoolHigh · 1,856 students
- Lubbock-Cooper Middle SchoolMiddle · 901 students
- Lubbock-Cooper East Elementary SchoolElementary · 857 students
Other Atkins Middle schools
One other US public school is named Atkins Middle. Atkins Middle School is the largest of the 2.
- ATKINS MIDDLE SCHOOLATKINS, AR · 264 students
Nearby schools
- Bayless Elementary School0.2 mi · 469
- Texasworks - Lubbock-Briercroft0.4 mi · 19
- Premier H S - Lubbock (briercroft)0.4 mi · 140
- Richard Milburn Academy Lubbock0.5 mi · 155
- Hodges Elementary School0.6 mi · 292
- Triumph Public High Schools-Lubbock0.9 mi · 133
Frequently asked questions
About Atkins Middle SchoolHow many students attend Atkins Middle School?
Atkins Middle School enrolls approximately 433 students in grades 06-08.
Is Atkins Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Atkins Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Atkins Middle School?
Approximately 10.9:1 students per teacher at Atkins Middle School.
How diverse is Atkins Middle School?
Atkins Middle School reports a student body of 10% White, 75% Hispanic, 13% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Atkins Middle School?
Atkins Middle School is overseen by LUBBOCK ISD in Lubbock County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.