TYLER LEGACY H S

TYLER LEGACY H S is one of the substantial secondary schools in TYLER, Texas, overseen by TYLER ISD, with 2,770 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so TYLER LEGACY H S sits 248% above that benchmark.

TYLER ISD comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 18,708 students; TYLER LEGACY H S is among them.

On the student-mix side, TYLER LEGACY H S reports that the largest single group is White at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 30% Hispanic, 25% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Smith County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 171 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 52% of students at TYLER LEGACY H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Smith County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, TYLER LEGACY H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.0%, the actual is 54.8%, a residual of +3.8 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Smith County) shows that median household income runs about $74,192, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Smith County's 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 37,385 students), TYLER LEGACY H S is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: HUBBARD MIDDLE, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around TYLER LEGACY H S. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TYLER LEGACY H S ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 46.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. TYLER LEGACY H S's enrollment has grew 25% since 2018, when it stood at 2,222 (now 2,770). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

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