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TEXAS LEADERSHIP OF MIDLAND
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 12 points since 2020, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 54% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About TEXAS LEADERSHIP OF MIDLAND
Set in MIDLAND, Texas, TEXAS LEADERSHIP OF MIDLAND is a heavily attended multi-level school, one of the schools within TEXAS LEADERSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It serves 888 students across grades K through 12. That puts it 83% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 485 students.
TEXAS LEADERSHIP OF MIDLAND is one of 4 schools operated by TEXAS LEADERSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS, a district that caters to 4,202 students overall.
On demographics, TEXAS LEADERSHIP OF MIDLAND lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 20% White, 6% Black, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 46%.
On the income-and-resources front, TEXAS LEADERSHIP OF MIDLAND logs 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.7:1, putting TEXAS LEADERSHIP OF MIDLAND higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 45% of students at TEXAS LEADERSHIP OF MIDLAND qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Midland County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, TEXAS LEADERSHIP OF MIDLAND sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 54.2%; actual is 20.2%, a gap of -34.0 points.
Around the school, census data for Midland County shows median household income runs about $92,874, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. TEXAS LEADERSHIP OF MIDLAND is one of 52 public schools in Midland County (combined enrollment of about 35,119 students).
Nearest neighbor: LAMAR EL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around TEXAS LEADERSHIP OF MIDLAND. On composite proficiency, TEXAS LEADERSHIP OF MIDLAND comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.3%.
The campus sits in an urban setting. TEXAS LEADERSHIP OF MIDLAND operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 67%: 532 students in 2018 compared to 888 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 28% to 20%. Class-load math has widened: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
Midland County at a glance
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