AMHERST SCHOOL

As an one-room-style unified-grade school in AMHERST, Texas, AMHERST SCHOOL hosts 102 students from grades pre-K through 12, one of the schools within AMHERST ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 79% smaller than the state mean of about 485.

AMHERST ISD is the operating authority for AMHERST SCHOOL, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

For racial and ethnic makeup, AMHERST SCHOOL reports that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 8% White, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 5.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.7:1, putting AMHERST SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Lamb County (around 69%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, AMHERST SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 32.8%; this one comes in at 13.8%, -19.0 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, census data for Lamb County shows the typical household earns roughly $60,760 per year, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. AMHERST SCHOOL is one of 13 public schools in Lamb County (combined enrollment of about 2,773 students).

LITTLEFIELD EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.4 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, AMHERST SCHOOL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.0%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 38%: 165 students in 2018 compared to 102 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 8.3:1 in 2018 to 5.3:1 today.

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