Public school / Primary / Charter
Life School Lancaster
Red Oak, Texas
- NCES ID
- 480005511533
- District
- Life School
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Life School Lancaster is a public primary school in Red Oak, Texas, run by Life School. It enrols 415 students — the 48721st largest of 9,692 public schools in Texas.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
415
Teachers
24.0
Students per teacher
17.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
81.0%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Life School
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Life School Oak Cliff1,426 students
- 2Life H S Waxahachie1,048 students
- 3Life School Red Oak1,037 students
- 4Life Middle Waxahachie600 students
- 5Life School Cedar Hill449 students
- 6Life School Lancaster415 students
- 7Life School Carrollton262 students
- 8Life School Mountain Creek261 students
- Enrollment−20.2%
- Teachers−31.4%
- Students per teacher+18.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+14.4%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory