Lamar High School

Lamar High School operates as a small high school in LAMAR, Colorado, part of Lamar School District No. Re-2. Current enrollment sits at 393 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 627 students each, so Lamar High School sits 37% below that benchmark.

Within Lamar School District No. Re-2, which oversees 6 schools and 1,397 students, Lamar High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lamar High School records that 65% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 34% White. By comparison, Prowers County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.9:1 average. Roughly 68% of students at Lamar High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lamar High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.4%, the actual is 17.6%, a residual of -7.7 points.

In the broader community, Prowers County reports that median household income runs about $53,508, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Prowers County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,153 students), of which Lamar High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Melvin Hendrickson Development Center, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lamar High School at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 38.9%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 11%: 443 students in 2018 compared to 393 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 54% to 65% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

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