Enrollment
275
Middle
DISTRICT 233 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAMAR SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. RE-2·NCES 080522000861
Lamar Middle School
104 WEST PARK, LAMAR, CO 81052 · (719) 336-7436 · Prowers County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL275 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% of Colorado public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
210 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 50%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 84 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 108 | 39% |
| Grade 8 | 83 | 30% |
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Lamar Middle School→Lamar High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Lamar School District No. Re-2. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
32.6%
CO avg 44.9% . +1.6pp since 2023
Math
23.4%
CO avg 36.1% . +3.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.6% | 23.4% |
| 2023-24 | 31.0% | 19.6% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
24.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.4%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Lamar Middle School
Lamar Middle School's state test result (24.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lamar Middle School this school | 275 | 76.4% | 24.8% |
| Longs Peak Middle School LONGMONT | 381 | 80.3% | 17.8% |
| Trinidad Middle School TRINIDAD | 172 | 72.7% | 26.9% |
| Ortega Middle School ALAMOSA | 471 | 78.6% | N/A |
| North Valley Middle School GILCREST | 248 | 66.9% | 32.5% |
| Monte Vista Middle School MONTE VISTA | 190 | 72.6% | 17.1% |
Matched among Colorado middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Lamar Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.8% | #162 of 241 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.4% | #139 of 244 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.6% | #167 of 246 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 275 | #205 of 278 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #43 of 227 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.6% | #138 of 227 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.4% | #46 of 246 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.1% | #95 of 169 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
275
-55 (-17%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 467
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 16.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 275 | 20.5 | 13.4:1 | 76% (210) |
| 2023-24 | 287 | 20.5 | 14.0:1 | 78% (223) |
| 2022-23 | 325 | 20.6 | 15.8:1 | 74% (240) |
| 2020-21 | 330 | 20 | 16.5:1 | 65% (216) |
| 2017-18 | 320 | 21.9 | 14.6:1 | 68% (216) |
| 2015-16 | 337 | 22 | 15.3:1 | 71% (240) |
| 2010-11 | 215 | 16 | 13.4:1 | 67% (145) |
| 2000-01 | 421 | 26 | 16.2:1 | 50% (212) |
| 1990-91 | 467 | 27 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lamar Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (320 to 275); teachers down 6% (21.9 to 20.5).
About Lamar Middle School
Lamar Middle School is a small middle-grades school. Its address is in LAMAR, Colorado. The grade span is 6 through 8, and enrollment is 275 students. An average school in this group (middle schools in Colorado) has about 462 students.
Lamar Middle School is run by Lamar School District No. Re-2, whose 6 schools enroll 1,397 students.
At Lamar Middle School, Hispanic students make up 65% of the student body. The next largest groups are 32% White. The school's Hispanic share is 24 points above the 41% share among Prowers County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 48% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teacher staffing is 20.5 full-time equivalents, or about 13.4 students per teacher. On average, middle schools in Colorado have 15.9:1, compared with 13.4:1 here. About 76% of students, or 210, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Measured against Colorado public middle schools, Lamar Middle School receives a B-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Lamar Middle School is 4.4 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (24.8% versus 20.4%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Colorado.
Federal survey data for Prowers County show that the median household income is $53,508, about 19% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Prowers County is home to 11 public schools and about 2,153 public school students.
The nearest other public school, Washington Elementary School, is about 0.3 miles away. There are 5 more public schools inside five miles. Among the 7 closest schools with test data, this one included, Lamar Middle School ranks 5th on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Lamar Middle School the locale Town: Remote, meaning in a town far from an urbanized area.
Lamar Middle School's enrollment declined from 330 in 2020-21 to 275 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 13.4:1, from 16.5:1.
The Lamar Middle School community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Prowers County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
11,910
Census ACS
Median income
$53,508
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
11
2,153 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lamar School District No. Re-2
- Lamar High SchoolHigh · 393 students
- Parkview Elementary SchoolElementary · 252 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 222 students
- Alta Vista Charter SchoolElementary · 133 students
- Melvin Hendrickson Development CenterElementary · 122 students
Other schools in LAMAR
- Lamar High SchoolHigh · 393 students
- Parkview Elementary SchoolElementary · 252 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 222 students
- Alta Vista Charter SchoolElementary · 133 students
- Melvin Hendrickson Development CenterElementary · 122 students
Other Lamar Middle schools
7 other US public schools in 4 states are named Lamar Middle. Lamar Middle School is the 7th largest of the 8.
- Lamar Middle SchoolLAREDO, TX · 1,204 students
- Lamar Middle SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 1,109 students
- Lamar Middle SchoolFLOWER MOUND, TX · 716 students
- Lamar Middle SchoolIRVING, TX · 676 students
- Lamar Middle SchoolTEMPLE, TX · 553 students
Nearby schools
- Washington Elementary School0.3 mi · 222
- Parkview Elementary School0.4 mi · 252
- Melvin Hendrickson Development Center0.9 mi · 122
- Lamar High School1.0 mi · 393
- Alta Vista Charter School3.3 mi · 133
- Wiley Junior-Senior High School7.5 mi · 115
Frequently asked questions
About Lamar Middle SchoolHow large is Lamar Middle School?
Lamar Middle School enrolls approximately 275 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Lamar Middle School serve?
Lamar Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Lamar Middle School have?
Lamar Middle School employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.4:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Lamar Middle School?
At Lamar Middle School, the student body is approximately 32% White, 65% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Lamar Middle School public or private?
Lamar Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lamar School District No. Re-2.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.