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What's one thing LANCASTER MIDDLE gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
908
Middle
DISTRICT 691 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LANCASTER ISD·NCES 482667003004
Lancaster Middle School
822 W PLEASANT RUN RD, LANCASTER, TX 75146 · (972) 218-1660 · Dallas County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL908 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 4% of Texas public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
65 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
774 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 436 | 48% |
| Grade 8 | 472 | 52% |
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Lancaster Middle School→Lancaster High School
Based on grade levels within LANCASTER ISD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
42.0%
TX avg 54.5% . -5.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
30.0%
TX avg 45.3% . -7.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are down about 5 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 16.0% | 26.0% | 32.0% | 26.0% |
| Mathematics | 10.0% | 20.0% | 20.0% | 50.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 42.0% | 30.0% |
| 2024-25 | 41.0% | 26.0% |
| 2023-24 | 39.0% | 20.0% |
| 2022-23 | 47.0% | 35.0% |
| 2021-22 | 40.0% | 28.0% |
| 2020-21 | 47.0% | 37.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
25.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.3%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Lancaster Middle School
Lancaster Middle School's state test result (25.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lancaster Middle School this school | 908 | 85.2% | 25.7% |
| Vincent Middle School BEAUMONT | 637 | 81.9% | 18.1% |
| Smith Middle School BEAUMONT | 532 | 87.0% | 17.7% |
| Crowley Middle School FORT WORTH | 821 | 84.3% | 27.4% |
| KIPP Spirit College Prep HOUSTON | 532 | 91.5% | 34.3% |
| G W Carver 6th Grade STEM Learning Center LANCASTER | 473 | 84.1% | 38.0% |
Matched among Texas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Lancaster Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Dallas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.7% | #1,500 of 1,635 | #107 of 118 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 30.0% | #1,368 of 1,670 ▲ 69 | #98 of 123 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #1,407 of 1,670 ▼ 54 | #89 of 123 ▼ 14 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -5.0pp | #96 of 1,570 | #18 of 121 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 908 | #391 of 1,749 | #24 of 126 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #606 of 1,542 | #35 of 123 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.5% | #1,062 of 1,543 | #74 of 123 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.2% | #384 of 1,648 | #63 of 121 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.8% | #629 of 942 | #65 of 80 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
908
-209 (-19%) vs 2020
+33% since 1990-91, when it was 681
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 18.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 908 | 64.9 | 14.0:1 | 85% (774) |
| 2023-24 | 968 | 53.4 | 18.1:1 | 85% (827) |
| 2022-23 | 1,007 | 62.9 | 16.0:1 | 84% (849) |
| 2020-21 | 1,117 | 59 | 18.9:1 | 84% (941) |
| 2017-18 | 1,007 | 59.7 | 16.9:1 | 86% (863) |
| 2015-16 | 1,114 | 65 | 17.1:1 | 88% (985) |
| 2010-11 | 1,264 | 72 | 17.6:1 | 81% (1,027) |
| 2000-01 | 707 | 43 | 16.4:1 | 46% (323) |
| 1990-91 | 681 | 39 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lancaster Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (1,007 to 908); teachers up 9% (59.7 to 64.9).
About Lancaster Middle School
Lancaster Middle School is a mid-sized middle-grades school based in LANCASTER, Texas. It teaches 908 students in grades 7 through 8. By comparison, middle schools in Texas enroll about 643 students on average.
Lancaster Middle School is one school in a 10-school district, LANCASTER ISD, which enrolls 6,822 students.
The student body at Lancaster Middle School is 72% Black. It is also 25% Hispanic. Dallas County's residents are about 22% Black, 49 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 43% means there is a 43% chance two randomly chosen students at Lancaster Middle School are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.0:1. The school has 64.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 14.4:1 average for middle schools in Texas is close to this figure. In all, 85% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Lancaster Middle School earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 4% of Texas public middle schools.
Test results at Lancaster Middle School are 11.6 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (25.7% actual, 37.3% predicted).
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Dallas County show that median household income comes to about $76,547, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Dallas County counts 771 public schools with about 459,645 students.
G W Carver 6th Grade STEM Learning Center, about 0.2 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of Lancaster Middle School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Lancaster Middle School ranks 7th of 8 on average proficiency.
Lancaster Middle School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 908, from 1,117 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher dropped from 18.9 to 14.0 over 4 years.
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Dallas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,621,179
Census ACS
Median income
$76,547
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
771
459,645 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LANCASTER ISD
- Lancaster High SchoolHigh · 2,255 students
- Houston Elementary SchoolElementary · 613 students
- West Main Elementary SchoolElementary · 601 students
- Pleasant Run Elementary SchoolElementary · 597 students
- Belt Line Elementary SchoolElementary · 567 students
- G W Carver 6th Grade STEM Learning CenterMiddle · 473 students
Other schools in LANCASTER
- Lancaster High SchoolHigh · 2,255 students
- Iltexas Lancaster Elementary SchoolElementary · 737 students
- Houston Elementary SchoolElementary · 613 students
- West Main Elementary SchoolElementary · 601 students
- Pleasant Run Elementary SchoolElementary · 597 students
- Belt Line Elementary SchoolElementary · 567 students
Other Lancaster Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Lancaster Middle. Lancaster Middle School is the largest of the 3.
- LANCASTER MIDDLE SCHOOLLANCASTER, NY · 876 students
- Lancaster MiddleLancaster, WI · 231 students
Nearby schools
- G W Carver 6th Grade STEM Learning Center0.2 mi · 473
- Pleasant Run Elementary School0.5 mi · 597
- West Main Elementary School0.9 mi · 601
- Lancaster High School1.1 mi · 2,255
- Belt Line Elementary School1.1 mi · 567
- L ISD J J Alternative Education Program1.4 mi · 4
Frequently asked questions
About Lancaster Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Lancaster Middle School?
Lancaster Middle School enrolls approximately 908 students in grades 07-08.
What grades does Lancaster Middle School serve?
Lancaster Middle School serves grades 07-08.
How many students per teacher at Lancaster Middle School?
Approximately 14.0:1 students per teacher at Lancaster Middle School.
How diverse is Lancaster Middle School?
Lancaster Middle School reports a student body of 2% White, 25% Hispanic, 72% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Lancaster Middle School in?
Lancaster Middle School is part of LANCASTER ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.