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If you could change one rule at LANIER MIDDLE, what would it be?
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Enrollment
1,485
Middle
DISTRICT 647 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOUSTON ISD·NCES 482364002514
Lanier Middle School
2600 WOODHEAD ST, HOUSTON, TX 77098 · (713) 942-1900 · Harris County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL1,485 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
20.1:1
74 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
382 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 6 | 518 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 483 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 484 | 33% |
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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
Lanier Middle School→Lamar High School
Feeds from
Based on published attendance-zone data from HOUSTON ISD. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
88.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +31.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
75.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +17.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 31 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 17 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 73.0% | 15.0% | 7.0% | 5.0% |
| Mathematics | 48.0% | 27.0% | 15.0% | 10.0% |
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 | 88.0% | 75.0% |
| 2024-25 | 86.0% | 81.0% |
| 2023-24 | 86.0% | 77.0% |
| 2022-23 | 70.0% | 57.0% |
| 2021-22 | 60.0% | 51.0% |
| 2020-21 | 57.0% | 58.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
79.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.7%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 63% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Texas's top 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 Lanier Middle School
Lanier Middle School's state test result (79.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lanier Middle School this school | 1,485 | 25.7% | 79.2% |
| Spillane Middle School CYPRESS | 1,436 | 30.9% | 72.3% |
| Kealing Middle School AUSTIN | 1,196 | 24.7% | 72.2% |
| Arbor Creek Middle School CARROLLTON | 940 | 24.5% | 58.4% |
| Woodcreek Junior High School KATY | 1,566 | 23.6% | 74.2% |
| Cw Worthington Middle School HASLET | 1,201 | 29.6% | 52.6% |
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 Lanier Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Harris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.2% | #30 of 1,635 | #5 of 218 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #85 of 1,670 ▼ 43 | #18 of 219 ▼ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 88.0% | #33 of 1,670 ▲ 12 | #6 of 219 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +18.0pp | #360 of 1,570 | #53 of 216 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,485 | #27 of 1,749 | #4 of 227 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.1:1 | #1,513 of 1,542 | #205 of 215 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.5% | #16 of 1,543 | #3 of 215 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.7% | #1,501 of 1,648 | #213 of 221 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.1% | #412 of 437 | #38 of 41 |
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
1,485
+74 (+5%) vs 2020
+9% since 1990-91, when it was 1,366
Student : Teacher
20.1:1
was 20.2:1
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 | 1,485 | 74 | 20.1:1 | 26% (382) |
| 2023-24 | 1,418 | 70.2 | 20.2:1 | 29% (417) |
| 2022-23 | 1,434 | 71.3 | 20.1:1 | 29% (415) |
| 2020-21 | 1,411 | 70 | 20.2:1 | 23% (320) |
| 2017-18 | 1,469 | 74.5 | 19.7:1 | 24% (346) |
| 2015-16 | 1,370 | 76 | 18.0:1 | 28% (385) |
| 2010-11 | 1,347 | 76 | 17.7:1 | 26% (345) |
| 2000-01 | 1,456 | 79 | 18.4:1 | 26% (374) |
| 1990-91 | 1,366 | 65 | 21.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lanier Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (1,469 to 1,485); teachers down 1% (74.5 to 74).
About Lanier Middle School
As a large middle school, Lanier Middle School serves students in HOUSTON, Texas. The school counts 1,485 students across grades 6 through 8. The school's enrollment is 131% above the 643 average for middle schools in Texas.
Lanier Middle School reports to HOUSTON ISD, which has 273 schools and 176,727 students.
White students are the largest group at Lanier Middle School, with 32% of enrollment. The next largest groups are 30% Hispanic, 18% Asian, 13% Black, and 7% multiracial. County-wide, about 34% of residents are White. By the diversity index, Lanier Middle School comes in at 75%.
Teachers at the school number 74 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 20.1:1. Among middle schools in Texas, the typical ratio is 14.4:1. The lunch program counts 26% of students at Lanier Middle School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. It compares with 70% for public schools in Harris County.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate on state tests for Lanier Middle School is 62.7%. It actually posts 79.2%, which is 16.5 points higher and in the top 10% of Texas schools.
County data help place the school in context: in Harris County, median household income is about $74,983, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. Lanier Middle School is among the 1,205 public schools in Harris County.
The school nearest to Lanier Middle School is Ella J Baker Montessori School, at a distance of about 0.6 miles. Within five miles of Lanier Middle School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Lanier Middle School places 2nd out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
The NCES locale for Lanier Middle School is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The number of students climbed from 1,411 to 1,485 over 4 years.
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Harris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
4,838,303
Census ACS
Median income
$74,983
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,205
886,911 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HOUSTON ISD
- Texas Connections Academy at HoustonCombined · 8,641 students
- Bellaire High SchoolHigh · 3,216 students
- Lamar High SchoolHigh · 2,968 students
- Westside High SchoolHigh · 2,729 students
- Heights High SchoolHigh · 2,426 students
- Houston Math Science and Technology CenterHigh · 2,396 students
Other schools in HOUSTON
- Texas Connections Academy at HoustonCombined · 8,641 students
- North Shore Senior HighHigh · 4,284 students
- Elsik High SchoolHigh · 4,057 students
- Summer Creek High SchoolHigh · 3,972 students
- Hastings High SchoolHigh · 3,786 students
- C E King High SchoolHigh · 3,716 students
Other Lanier Middle schools
One other US public school is named Lanier Middle. Lanier Middle School is the largest of the 2.
- Lanier Middle SchoolSugar Hill, GA · 1,369 students
Nearby schools
- Ella J Baker Montessori School0.6 mi · 610
- River Oaks Elementary School0.9 mi · 777
- Poe Elementary School1.0 mi · 748
- Arabic Immersion Magnet School1.1 mi · 609
- Lamar High School1.2 mi · 2,968
- Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy1.2 mi · 715
Frequently asked questions
About Lanier Middle SchoolHow many students attend Lanier Middle School?
Lanier Middle School enrolls approximately 1,485 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Lanier Middle School serve?
Lanier Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Lanier Middle School have?
Lanier Middle School employs 74 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Lanier Middle School?
Student demographics at Lanier Middle School are roughly 32% White, 30% Hispanic, 13% Black, 18% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Lanier Middle School public or private?
Lanier Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by HOUSTON ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.