Lorenzo De Zavala Middle School

Size

Lorenzo De Zavala Middle School is the 8th largest of Amarillo ISD's 12 middle schools; its 427 students are 1.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 5 miles away with a median enrollment of 564; Lorenzo De Zavala Middle School 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 123 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 95, against an average of 107 per grade. This year grade 8 has 15% more students than grade 5 (109 against 95). 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

The largest group is White students: 55.5% here and 33.2% across Amarillo ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 30.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

31.4% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 70.5% across Amarillo ISD and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

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

Teachers

With 26.08 full-time-equivalent teachers for 427 students, Lorenzo De Zavala Middle School has 16.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 427 students would have about 29.7 teachers, so Lorenzo De Zavala Middle School has 3.6 fewer.

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

Location

Lorenzo De Zavala Middle School is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other middle school is Houston Middle School, 2.8 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 17 other middle schools, 3 of them within 5 miles.

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