HAROLD WENDELL LANG SR MIDDLE

HAROLD WENDELL LANG SR MIDDLE is a middle-grades school of mid-sized scale in DALLAS, Texas, operated by DALLAS ISD, educateing 740 students in grades 6 through 8.

Across the 240 schools in DALLAS ISD (140,630 students total), HAROLD WENDELL LANG SR MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, HAROLD WENDELL LANG SR MIDDLE records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment; the rest looks like 32% Black, 3% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 96% of students at HAROLD WENDELL LANG SR MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, HAROLD WENDELL LANG SR MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.9%; this one delivers 27.8%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Dallas County) logs that median household earnings sit near $76,547, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), HAROLD WENDELL LANG SR MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: UPLIFT LUNA PREP PS, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HAROLD WENDELL LANG SR MIDDLE ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 32.2%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. HAROLD WENDELL LANG SR MIDDLE's enrollment has shrank 18% since 2018, when it stood at 907 (now 740). Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 42% to 32%.

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