DR TERRY ROBBINS MIDDLE

Set in LUFKIN, Texas, DR TERRY ROBBINS MIDDLE is a modestly sized 6-8 campus, overseen by PINEYWOODS COMMUNITY ACADEMY. It instructs 260 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 60% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

DR TERRY ROBBINS MIDDLE is one of 3 schools operated by PINEYWOODS COMMUNITY ACADEMY, a district that instructs 1,061 students overall.

On the student-mix side, DR TERRY ROBBINS MIDDLE reports that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 30% Hispanic, 20% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Angelina County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DR TERRY ROBBINS MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 46.7%, a residual of -2.7 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Angelina County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,960 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. DR TERRY ROBBINS MIDDLE is one of 43 public schools in Angelina County (combined enrollment of about 15,649 students).

The closest other public school is PINEYWOODS COMMUNITY ACADEMY H S, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DR TERRY ROBBINS MIDDLE at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 49.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area. DR TERRY ROBBINS MIDDLE is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. DR TERRY ROBBINS MIDDLE's enrollment has grew 6% since 2018, when it stood at 245 (now 260). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 56% to 43%.

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