E J MOSS INT

E J MOSS INT is an intermediate school of sprawling scale in LINDALE, Texas, one of the schools within LINDALE ISD, teacheing 1,082 students in grades 4 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 68% larger than the state mean of about 643.

LINDALE ISD runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 4,606 students. E J MOSS INT is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, E J MOSS INT logs that 65% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 21% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 6% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, E J MOSS INT has 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 46% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Smith County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, E J MOSS INT tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.6%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Smith County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $74,192 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. E J MOSS INT is one of 65 public schools in Smith County (combined enrollment of about 37,385 students).

The closest other public school is LINDALE H S, roughly 0.6 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, E J MOSS INT comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 58.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at E J MOSS INT has edged up 13%, going from 956 students in 2018 to 1,082 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 73% to 65% over that span.

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