LAMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LAMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in LAMAR, Arkansas, one of the schools within LAMAR SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructing 590 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 41% bigger than the state mean of about 418.

LAMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 3 schools operated by LAMAR SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 1,254 students overall.

Looking at the student body, LAMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). The remainder looks like 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.0:1, putting LAMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Johnson County runs at roughly 86%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LAMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.5%, the actual is 36.2%, a residual of +13.7 points.

In the area at large, Johnson County reports that median household earnings sit near $45,995, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. LAMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 13 public schools in Johnson County (combined enrollment of about 4,527 students).

LAMAR MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around LAMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, LAMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 31.7%.

LAMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. LAMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has expanded 28% since 2018, when it stood at 460 (now 590). The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for LAMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.