MACKENZIE MIDDLE

MACKENZIE MIDDLE, a compact junior high in LUBBOCK, Texas, overseen by LUBBOCK ISD, teaches 413 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so MACKENZIE MIDDLE sits 36% leaner than that benchmark.

LUBBOCK ISD comprises 49 schools with combined enrollment of 24,237 students; MACKENZIE MIDDLE is among them.

On the student-mix side, MACKENZIE MIDDLE lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 62%. Other groups include 18% Black, 15% White, 2% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

Looking at school resources, MACKENZIE MIDDLE logs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 90% of students at MACKENZIE MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Lubbock County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MACKENZIE MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.5%; this one delivers 25.6%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Lubbock County indicate median household income runs about $64,155, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lubbock County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 52,301 students), MACKENZIE MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

HARDWICK EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MACKENZIE MIDDLE comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.2%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. MACKENZIE MIDDLE's enrollment has decreased 27% since 2018, when it stood at 566 (now 413). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 22% to 15%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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