Enrollment
330
Middle
DISTRICT 293 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BISHOP CISD·NCES 481026000508
Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School
717 E SIXTH ST, BISHOP, TX 78343 · (361) 584-3576 · Nueces County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL330 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 76% of Texas public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-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
12.4:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.9:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
194 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 65%
Community
0
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 | 100 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 123 | 37% |
| Grade 8 | 107 | 32% |
Student demographics
30%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 27% · 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
Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School→Bishop High School
Based on grade levels within BISHOP CISD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
66.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +41.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
61.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +32.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 61 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 41 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 32 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 36.0% | 30.0% | 20.0% | 14.0% |
| Mathematics | 30.0% | 31.0% | 21.0% | 18.0% |
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 | 66.0% | 61.0% |
| 2024-25 | 65.0% | 62.0% |
| 2023-24 | 59.0% | 53.0% |
| 2022-23 | 64.0% | 50.0% |
| 2021-22 | 58.0% | 58.0% |
| 2020-21 | 25.0% | 29.0% |
% 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
53.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.6%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School
Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School's state test result (53.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School this school | 330 | 58.8% | 53.8% |
| William G Gravitt Junior High School DENVER CITY | 319 | 58.6% | 35.5% |
| Karnes City Junior High School KARNES CITY | 234 | 59.0% | 28.1% |
| E Merle Smith Middle School SINTON | 425 | 64.0% | 38.6% |
| Perryton Junior High School PERRYTON | 395 | 60.8% | 49.8% |
| KIPP Austin Academy of Arts & Letters AUSTIN | 388 | 54.4% | 30.8% |
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 Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Nueces County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.8% | #383 of 1,635 | #6 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #274 of 1,670 ▼ 31 | #3 of 22 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #361 of 1,670 ▲ 16 | #5 of 22 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.5pp | #1,006 of 1,570 | #10 of 20 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 330 | #1,352 of 1,749 | #17 of 22 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #239 of 1,542 | #3 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.0% | #1,217 of 1,543 | #11 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.8% | #968 of 1,648 | #12 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.7% | #763 of 942 | #12 of 16 |
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
330
-72 (-18%) vs 2020
-9% since 1990-91, when it was 363
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 330 | 26.5 | 12.4:1 | 59% (194) |
| 2023-24 | 306 | 23.7 | 12.9:1 | 66% (203) |
| 2022-23 | 327 | 25.5 | 12.8:1 | 68% (222) |
| 2020-21 | 402 | 27 | 14.9:1 | 60% (242) |
| 2017-18 | 350 | 21.4 | 16.3:1 | 74% (260) |
| 2015-16 | 342 | 21 | 16.3:1 | 67% (229) |
| 2010-11 | 225 | 16 | 14.1:1 | 57% (128) |
| 2000-01 | 286 | 25 | 11.4:1 | 44% (125) |
| 1990-91 | 363 | 26 | 14.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (350 to 330); teachers up 24% (21.4 to 26.5).
About Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School
At 717 E SIXTH ST in BISHOP, Texas, Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School operates as a low-enrollment middle-grades school. The school runs grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 330 students. Middle schools in Texas have about 643 students on average; enrollment here is 49% lower.
BISHOP CISD runs 5 schools with a combined 1,463 students. Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School is one of them.
Of every 100 students at Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School, about 82 are Hispanic. It is also 16% White. For comparison, the population of Nueces County is roughly 63% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 30%.
For every teacher at Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School, there are about 12.4 students; the school has 26.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in Texas, 14.4:1, is higher. There are 194 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 59% of enrollment.
Among Texas public middle schools, Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School outscored 76%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School would be expected to post about 48.6%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 53.8%.
The school's county is Nueces County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $66,897 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 24% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. Public schools in Nueces County number 124, with about 59,619 students.
Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School is about 0.1 miles from Bishop High School, its nearest public school. Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School has 3 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School ranks 3rd of 8 nearby schools, at 53.8% versus a 39.3% average.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Rural: Distant.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was an 18% decline, from 402 to 330. The ratio of students to teachers went from 14.9:1 to 12.4:1 over the same years.
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Nueces County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
352,955
Census ACS
Median income
$66,897
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
124
59,619 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BISHOP CISD
- Bishop High SchoolHigh · 533 students
- Bishop Primary SchoolElementary · 258 students
- Bishop Elementary SchoolElementary · 232 students
- Petronila Elementary SchoolElementary · 110 students
- Nueces Co J J Alternative Education ProgramElementary
Other schools in BISHOP
- Bishop High SchoolHigh · 533 students
- Bishop Primary SchoolElementary · 258 students
- Bishop Elementary SchoolElementary · 232 students
- Nueces Co J J Alternative Education ProgramElementary
Nearby schools
- Bishop High School0.1 mi · 533
- Bishop Elementary School0.2 mi · 232
- Bishop Primary School1.1 mi · 258
- Gillett Middle School5.3 mi · 455
- Jubilee Kingsville5.6 mi · 302
- Harvey Elementary School5.8 mi · 486
Frequently asked questions
About Lillion E Luehrs Junior High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School?
Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School enrolls approximately 330 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School serve?
Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School is approximately 12.4:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School?
Student demographics at Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School are roughly 16% White, 82% Hispanic, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School public or private?
Lillion E Luehrs Junior High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by BISHOP CISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.