26 public K-12 schools in Lufkin from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Lufkin has more public-school enrollment than 82% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Lufkin sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.
Lufkin's list includes 8 elementary, 3 middle, and 7 high-school campuses, plus 8 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.
Lufkin's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 45th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 83rd percentile. The 38-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.
That concentration means Lufkin-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
Lufkin school enrollment ranges from 5 students (lowest) to 2,026 students (highest), a spread of 2,021 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Each school district has independent budgeting, hiring, and service delivery authority. The fragmentation reflects historical patterns of inter-municipal boundary lines that pre-date modern city growth, students in different parts of the same city can attend different districts with different per-pupil spending, calendars, and graduation requirements. Per-region variation is largest in fragmented systems because each school district sets its own budget, contracts, and priorities without higher-level coordination above the regulatory floor.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
12% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Stubblefield Lrn Ctr | 61 |
| 2. | Pineywoods Community Academy H S | 57 |
| 3. | Hudson H S | 51 |
| 4. | Hudson Middle | 51 |
| 5. | Dr Terry Robbins Middle | 47 |
| 6. | Juvenile Detent Ctr | 47 |
| 7. | W H Bonner El | 44 |
| 8. | Dunbar Pri | 44 |
| 9. | Special Services | 43 |
| 10. | Lufkin H S | 42 |
| 11. | W F Peavy Pri | 42 |
| 12. | Sarah Strinden El | 41 |
| 13. | Brandon El | 40 |
| 14. | Lufkin Middle | 39 |
| 15. | Coston El | 38 |
| 16. | Anderson El | 37 |
| 17. | Trout Pri | 35 |
| 18. | Slack El | 34 |
| 19. | Kurth Pri | 33 |
| 20. | Herty Pri | 32 |
| 21. | Garrett Pri | 31 |
| 22. | Brookhollow El | 30 |
| 23. | Stubblefield Lrn Ctr | 30 |
| 24. | Stubblefield Lrn Ctr | 30 |
| 25. | Stubblefield Lrn Ctr | 30 |
| 26. | Burley Pri | 25 |
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.
Stubblefield Lrn Ctr has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Lufkin schools in this federal-data comparison at 61/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Lufkin has 26 public schools with a total enrollment of 10,717 students. 3 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.6:1.
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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.
