Lorenzo De Zavala Middle School

Size

Lorenzo De Zavala Middle School is the 2nd largest of Irving ISD's 8 middle schools; its 832 students are 2.7% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 1.7 miles away and have a median of 742 students, so Lorenzo De Zavala Middle School is close to their typical size.

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 7 with 294 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 255, against an average of 277 per grade. This year grade 8 has 11% more students than grade 6 (283 against 255). 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 85.7% of enrollment, a higher share than across Irving ISD (76.6%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

81.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 85.2% across Irving 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

Lorenzo De Zavala Middle School has 54.85 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 832 students would have about 57.8 teachers, so Lorenzo De Zavala Middle School has 2.9 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 Austin Middle School, 1.1 miles away in the same district. There are 9 middle schools within 5 miles and 47 within 10 miles.

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