AARON PARKER EL

Set in POWDERLY, Texas, AARON PARKER EL is a tight-knit primary school, part of NORTH LAMAR ISD. It serves 246 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 53% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

NORTH LAMAR ISD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,395 students; AARON PARKER EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, AARON PARKER EL lists that 67% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 16% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Native American.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting AARON PARKER EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, AARON PARKER EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.2%, the actual is 51.3%, a residual of +5.1 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Lamar County indicate median household income runs about $61,880, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across Lamar County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,516 students), AARON PARKER EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is NORTH LAMAR INT, roughly 8.4 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, AARON PARKER EL comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 43.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 5%: 234 students in 2018 compared to 246 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 79% to 67% across the same window.

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