Parkview Elementary School

Parkview Elementary School is an elementary campus of close-knit scale in LAMAR, Colorado, overseen by Lamar School District No. Re-2, caters to 252 students in grades 3 through 5. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Parkview Elementary School sits 34% below that benchmark.

Lamar School District No. Re-2 runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 1,397 students. Parkview Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Parkview Elementary School records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 29% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Prowers County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Parkview Elementary School records 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Prowers County (around 69%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Parkview Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 15.9%, the actual is 16.6%, a residual of +0.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Prowers County shows the typical household earns roughly $53,508 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Prowers County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,153 students), of which Parkview Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lamar Middle School, around 0.4 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Parkview Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.4%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Parkview Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 14% since 2018, when it stood at 293 (now 252). Class-load math has rose: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Parkview Elementary School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.