LUCYLE COLLINS MIDDLE

Set in FORT WORTH, Texas, LUCYLE COLLINS MIDDLE is a mid-tier intermediate school, one of the schools within LAKE WORTH ISD. It serves 735 students across grades 6 through 8.

LUCYLE COLLINS MIDDLE is one of 6 schools operated by LAKE WORTH ISD, a district that teaches 3,249 students overall.

Demographically, LUCYLE COLLINS MIDDLE lists that 54% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 26% Black, 12% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, LUCYLE COLLINS MIDDLE reports 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, LUCYLE COLLINS MIDDLE sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 34.4%; actual is 19.5%, a gap of -14.9 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put median household earnings sit near $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which LUCYLE COLLINS MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: MARILYN MILLER LANGUAGE ACADEMY, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LUCYLE COLLINS MIDDLE ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.9%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LUCYLE COLLINS MIDDLE has rose 46%, going from 503 students in 2018 to 735 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 16% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.