Juvenile Detent Center

Juvenile Detent Center is a very small middle school in Texas, located in LUFKIN. It reports enrollment of 9 students in grades 5 through 11. That puts enrollment 99% below the 643-student average for middle schools in Texas.

Juvenile Detent Center is run by LUFKIN ISD, whose 16 schools enroll 6,865 students.

Of every 100 students at Juvenile Detent Center, about 56 are White. The school is also 33% Black and 11% Hispanic.

Staffing at Juvenile Detent Center comes to 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 9.0:1. Middle schools in Texas have an average ratio of 14.4:1. On the income side, 89% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Angelina County average 70%.

For Angelina County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $60,960, about 18% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. There are 43 public schools in the county, enrolling about 15,649, Juvenile Detent Center among them.

A public school about 0.8 miles away, Dunbar Primary School, is the closest to Juvenile Detent Center. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Juvenile Detent Center.

The federal government classifies Juvenile Detent Center's location as Town: Remote.

Juvenile Detent Center reported 6 students in 2020-21 and 9 in 2024-25. Changes that large sometimes follow a school adding or dropping grades, so the two figures may not cover the same grades. The school's ratio increased from 6.0:1 to 9.0:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.

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