LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE

LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE operates as a tight-knit intermediate school in AMARILLO, Texas, overseen by AMARILLO ISD. Current enrollment sits at 427 students spanning grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE sits 34% smaller than that benchmark.

LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE is one of 55 schools operated by AMARILLO ISD, a district that caters to 29,321 students overall.

On demographics, LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE reports that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.4:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 31% of students at LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Potter County (around 74%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.2%, the actual is 64.1%, a residual of +4.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, Potter County reports that the typical household earns roughly $53,249 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Potter County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,501 students), of which LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is WOODLANDS EL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 44.8%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE has held roughly steady, going from 420 students in 2018 to 427 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 68% to 56%. Class-load math has widened: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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