LYLES COLLEGIATE MIDDLE

LYLES COLLEGIATE MIDDLE, a mid-sized middle-grades school in GARLAND, Texas, part of GARLAND ISD, enrolls 869 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 35% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

GARLAND ISD runs 76 schools in total, collectively educating 53,173 students. LYLES COLLEGIATE MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

On demographics, LYLES COLLEGIATE MIDDLE shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 37% Black, 6% White, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, LYLES COLLEGIATE MIDDLE lists 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LYLES COLLEGIATE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.2%, the actual is 27.0%, a residual of -8.2 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Dallas County put the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which LYLES COLLEGIATE MIDDLE is one.

LYLES MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LYLES COLLEGIATE MIDDLE comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.1%.

LYLES COLLEGIATE MIDDLE operates from an outer-ring location.

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