KURTH PRI

Located at 521 YORK DR, in LUFKIN, Texas, KURTH PRI is a compact primary school that educates 253 students (grades pre-K through 2), one of the schools within LUFKIN ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so KURTH PRI sits 51% below that benchmark.

LUFKIN ISD comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 6,865 students; KURTH PRI is among them.

In terms of who attends, KURTH PRI logs that the most-represented group is Black (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 32% Hispanic, 27% White, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 12% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, KURTH PRI logs 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Angelina County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Angelina County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,960 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Angelina County's 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,649 students), KURTH PRI is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LUFKIN MIDDLE, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 14%: 294 students in 2018 compared to 253 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 in 2025.

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