COMMANDER WILLIAM C MCCOOL ACADEMY

Set in LUBBOCK, Texas, COMMANDER WILLIAM C MCCOOL ACADEMY is a small middle-grades school, one of the schools within LUBBOCK ISD. It enrolls 416 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so COMMANDER WILLIAM C MCCOOL ACADEMY sits 35% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 49 schools in LUBBOCK ISD (24,237 students total), COMMANDER WILLIAM C MCCOOL ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, COMMANDER WILLIAM C MCCOOL ACADEMY lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 56%; the rest looks like 28% White, 11% Black, 2% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 36% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, COMMANDER WILLIAM C MCCOOL ACADEMY lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, COMMANDER WILLIAM C MCCOOL ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.2%, the actual is 55.0%, a residual of +5.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Lubbock County indicate median household earnings sit near $64,155, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. COMMANDER WILLIAM C MCCOOL ACADEMY is one of 110 public schools in Lubbock County (combined enrollment of about 52,301 students).

Nearest neighbor: CORONADO H S, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts COMMANDER WILLIAM C MCCOOL ACADEMY at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 47.1%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.