NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools TX

Best-Resourced Schools in Lindale, TX

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6 public K-12 schools in Lindale from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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6
Schools
4,606
Students
44.7/100
Avg Resource Index
15:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Lindale has more public-school enrollment than 51% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Lindale's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

3 of Lindale's 6 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 19-point gap between E J Moss Int and Early Childhood Center shows the range hidden by Lindale's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 49%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
69th percentile
Teacher staffing
54th percentile

Lindale H S accounts for 29.0% of all Lindale public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Lindale-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Lindale school enrollment varies 2.9× across entities

Lindale school enrollment ranges from 462 students (lowest) to 1,338 students (highest), a spread of 876 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Lindale operates one school district — a single-district system

Lindale's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Lindale student-teacher ratio is 15.0:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Lindale is typically wider than the Lindale-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. E J Moss Int 53
2. Lindale H S 46
3. College Street El 46
4. Velma Penny El 45
5. Lindale J H 44
6. Early Childhood Center 34

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Lindale

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Velma Penny El 54.2/100
  2. 2 Early Childhood Center 53.9/100
  3. 3 E J Moss Int 52.5/100
  4. 4 Lindale J H 51.2/100
  5. 5 Lindale H S 50.8/100

What do families ask about schools in Lindale?

Which Lindale school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

E J Moss Int has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Lindale schools in this federal-data comparison at 53/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Lindale, TX? ▼

Lindale has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,606 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.