As hard as it is to believe, we are coming up on the beginning of the 2026-27 school year. Some of our Deep East Texas schools start as early as August 3rd! With that being said, if you haven't at least started buying school supplies, you might want to consider doing that soon. I've tried to make it at least somewhat easier by finding out where you can save the most money on school supplies. Get our free mobile appFor the purpose of this post, I used the seventh-grade list for Lufkin Middle School students.