Commander William C McCool Academy

Size

Commander William C McCool Academy is the 5th largest of Lubbock ISD's 10 middle schools; its 416 students are 1.7% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 3 miles away and have a median of 535 students, so Commander William C McCool Academy is smaller than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 6 with 158 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 129, against an average of 139 per grade. This year grade 8 has 18% fewer students than grade 6 (129 against 158). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 56.3% of enrollment, a lower share than across Lubbock ISD (61%). White students are next, at 28.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

56.5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 72.1% across Lubbock ISD and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Commander William C McCool Academy has 26.79 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 416 students would have about 28.9 teachers, so Commander William C McCool Academy has 2.1 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other middle school is Hutchinson Middle School, 1.7 miles away in the same district. There are 11 middle schools within 5 miles and 15 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.