LAMAR HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 301 ELBERTA STREET, in LAMAR, Arkansas, LAMAR HIGH SCHOOL is a compact high school that enrolls 370 students (grades 9 through 12), part of LAMAR SCHOOL DISTRICT. That puts it 27% below the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 510 students.

Within LAMAR SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 1,254 students, LAMAR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, LAMAR HIGH SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). The remainder reads as 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Johnson County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 8.8:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at LAMAR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Johnson County's rate of about 86%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LAMAR HIGH SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of Arkansas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 22.6%; actual is 38.3%, +15.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Johnson County) reports that median household income runs about $45,995, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. LAMAR HIGH 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 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LAMAR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 31.4%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. LAMAR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 24% since 2018, when it stood at 489 (now 370). Class-load math has fell: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 7.0:1 in 2025.

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