LIFE MIDDLE WAXAHACHIE

LIFE MIDDLE WAXAHACHIE is a moderately sized junior high in WAXAHACHIE, Texas, part of LIFE SCHOOL. The school caters to 551 students in grades 7 through 8.

LIFE SCHOOL comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 5,735 students; LIFE MIDDLE WAXAHACHIE is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LIFE MIDDLE WAXAHACHIE logs that the most-represented group is Black (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 41% Hispanic, 11% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Ellis County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Ellis County's rate of about 51%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LIFE MIDDLE WAXAHACHIE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.5%; this one delivers 42.5%.

In the area at large, Ellis County reports that median household income runs about $99,595, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Ellis County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,344 students), of which LIFE MIDDLE WAXAHACHIE is one.

The closest other public school is LIFE H S WAXAHACHIE, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LIFE MIDDLE WAXAHACHIE ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 45.3%.

LIFE MIDDLE WAXAHACHIE operates from a suburban location. As a public charter, LIFE MIDDLE WAXAHACHIE runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 13%: 488 students in 2018 compared to 551 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 27% to 41% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.