LABAY MIDDLE

LABAY MIDDLE is a big middle school in HOUSTON, Texas, one of the schools within CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD. The school instructs 1,067 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so LABAY MIDDLE sits 66% above that benchmark.

Within CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD, which oversees 92 schools and 117,927 students, LABAY MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, LABAY MIDDLE lists that 55% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 21% Black, 13% White, 7% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 65 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 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, LABAY MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.5%, the actual is 49.9%, a residual of +6.4 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Harris County put the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which LABAY MIDDLE is one.

FIEST EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LABAY MIDDLE comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.6%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LABAY MIDDLE has fell 17%, going from 1,279 students in 2018 to 1,067 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 19% to 13%.

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