JUSTISS EL

Located at 401 18TH N W, in PARIS, Texas, JUSTISS EL is an average-sized elementary school that works with 546 students (grades K through 4), run under PARIS ISD.

Within PARIS ISD, which oversees 8 schools and 3,832 students, JUSTISS EL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, JUSTISS EL reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 29% Black, 21% White, 10% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

On the resource side, The school lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Lamar County's rate of about 61%.

After controlling for student poverty, JUSTISS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.9%, the actual is 29.3%, a residual of -3.5 points.

Across the wider county, Lamar County reports that the typical household earns roughly $61,880 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. In all, Lamar County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,516 students), of which JUSTISS EL is one.

TRAVIS H S OF CHOICE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JUSTISS EL at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 53.8%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 548 students in 2018 compared to 546 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 26% to 21%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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