Lingleville School, Lingleville TX

Original Research by School Decision on Lingleville School

Lingleville School sits on Farm-to-Market Road 219 in a small rural community in Erath County, Texas, where the local economy runs on dairy farming, ranching, and the broader agricultural and manufacturing base that anchors nearby Stephenville. The school is the single campus of Lingleville ISD, serving prekindergarten through grade twelve under one roof. With a total enrollment that places it among the smaller PK-12 campuses in the region, every grade cohort is quite small, typically fewer than two dozen students. That intimacy defines the experience here in ways that matter to families thinking about peer environment, extracurricular depth, and how well teachers can know individual kids.

On the demographic side, the student body is roughly split between white and Hispanic students, with a small share identifying as two or more races. Close to half of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, and the district operates the Community Eligibility Provision, meaning all enrolled students receive free breakfast and lunch with no application required. That is a concrete, ongoing benefit for families across the income range.

State assessment results from the most recent year tell a mixed story. On Texas STAAR, the pattern across math and reading is that proficiency climbs as students move up the grades. Third-grade math results are low, while eighth-grade math and eighth-grade reading land noticeably higher. The same upward trajectory appears in reading across the tested middle grades. Science scores are in the moderate range at eighth grade but softer at fifth. The eighth-grade social studies result is the weakest data point in the set, with only a small fraction of tested students reaching the meets-grade-level standard, and that is worth asking the school about directly. Looking across all tested subjects and grades, Lingleville School's overall proficiency index falls just below the midpoint relative to districts in Erath County, based on the county comparison set. Multi-year trend data was available for only a single year, so it is not possible to say whether results are improving, declining, or holding steady.

The share of students reaching the "masters" performance level, which Texas uses for the highest tier of mastery, is low across subjects. Strong masters-level rates are a marker of students positioned for rigorous high school and college coursework, so a family with a student aiming at advanced academics would want to ask how the school supports that pathway. No data was available in the payload on AP courses, dual credit, or other advanced program offerings, so that question would need to go directly to the campus.

Graduation rate data was not available in the comparison set, listed as not applicable due to a missing entity value, so that outcome cannot be assessed here. Chronic absenteeism data was similarly absent. Civil-rights outcome data was not provided.

Homeowners in the district should be aware that Lingleville ISD publicly reported adopting a maintenance-and-operations tax rate that raises more M&O revenue than the prior year's rate, which affects what district property owners pay.

Lingleville is a genuinely small, rural, agricultural community. Families drawn to a place where a child will be known by name from elementary through graduation, where the school is the central institution of community life, and where the setting is working ranch country rather than a suburb will find that description matches. Families who prioritize a wide menu of elective courses, large extracurricular programs, or competitive academic tracks built around AP and dual enrollment should ask the school specific questions, because the data here does not confirm or rule out those offerings, and a campus of this size has real constraints on breadth.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=80%Cohort of 17 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

1,779 schools plotted. 59 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 333%

School 33% · District 33%

▼ 7 pts below state median

Grade 541%

School 41% · District 41%

even with state median

Grade 644%

School 44% · District 44%

▲ 10 pts above state median

Grade 752%

School 52% · District 52%

▲ 25 pts above state median

Grade 859%

School 59% · District 59%

▲ 17 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 346%

School 46% · District 46%

even with state median

Grade 552%

School 52% · District 52%

▼ 2 pts below state median

Grade 644%

School 44% · District 44%

▼ 8 pts below state median

Grade 757%

School 57% · District 57%

▲ 8 pts above state median

Grade 863%

School 63% · District 63%

▲ 8 pts above state median

Science

Grade 526%

School 26% · District 26%

▲ 3 pts above state median

Grade 847%

School 47% · District 47%

▲ 5 pts above state median

Social studies

Grade 812%

School 12% · District 12%

▼ 12 pts below state median

This schoolLINGLEVILLE ISD, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income60%Higher-income36%24 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income36%Higher-income53%17 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income47%Higher-income58%11 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income40%Higher-income50%10 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income67%Higher-income50%17 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income50%Higher-income70%20 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income30%Higher-income36%6 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income9%Higher-income60%51 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income40%Higher-income42%2 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income0%Higher-income67%67 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income56%Higher-income50%6 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income33%Higher-income73%40 pp gap