LINDALE H S

LINDALE H S operates as a roomy four-year high school in LINDALE, Texas, one of the schools within LINDALE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 1,338 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 68% bigger than the state mean of about 796.

LINDALE ISD runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 4,606 students. LINDALE H S is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, LINDALE H S logs that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. Compared to Smith County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 93 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Smith County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, LINDALE H S sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 57.5%; actual is 81.6%, +24.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Smith County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,192 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Smith County's 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 37,385 students), LINDALE H S is one campus in the mix.

E J MOSS INT is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LINDALE H S comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 55.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 16%: 1,156 students in 2018 compared to 1,338 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 71% to 67%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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