LYLES MIDDLE

LYLES MIDDLE operates as an intimate junior high in GARLAND, Texas, operated by GARLAND ISD. Current enrollment sits at 295 students spanning grade 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so LYLES MIDDLE sits 54% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 76 schools in GARLAND ISD (53,173 students total), LYLES MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, LYLES MIDDLE shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 35% Black, 9% White, 5% Native American, 4% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, LYLES MIDDLE has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LYLES MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.3%, the actual is 34.1%, a residual of -2.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate 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%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), LYLES MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

LYLES COLLEGIATE MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LYLES MIDDLE comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 42.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 6-year window. LYLES MIDDLE's enrollment has decreased 66% since 2018, when it stood at 863 (now 295). The Black share of enrollment fell from 40% to 35% over that span.

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