LUBBOCK-COOPER LAURA BUSH MIDDLE

Located at 3425 118TH ST, in LUBBOCK, Texas, LUBBOCK-COOPER LAURA BUSH MIDDLE is a moderately sized 6-8 campus that serves 857 students (grades 6 through 8), run under LUBBOCK-COOPER ISD. That puts it 33% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

Within LUBBOCK-COOPER ISD, which oversees 10 schools and 8,030 students, LUBBOCK-COOPER LAURA BUSH MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, LUBBOCK-COOPER LAURA BUSH MIDDLE logs that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 39% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, LUBBOCK-COOPER LAURA BUSH MIDDLE has 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting LUBBOCK-COOPER LAURA BUSH MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 24% of students at LUBBOCK-COOPER LAURA BUSH MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Lubbock County (around 57%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LUBBOCK-COOPER LAURA BUSH MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.5%; this one delivers 57.7%.

Across the wider county, census data for Lubbock County shows median household earnings sit near $64,155, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. LUBBOCK-COOPER LAURA BUSH MIDDLE is one of 110 public schools in Lubbock County (combined enrollment of about 52,301 students).

Nearest neighbor: LUBBOCK-COOPER NEW HOPE ACADEMY, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LUBBOCK-COOPER LAURA BUSH MIDDLE comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 59.0%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 872 students in 2018 compared to 857 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 60% to 53%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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