LAMAR EL

LAMAR EL operates as a tight-knit elementary-level community in AMARILLO, Texas, operated by AMARILLO ISD. Current enrollment sits at 281 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 46% leaner than the state mean of about 519.

LAMAR EL is one of 55 schools operated by AMARILLO ISD, a district that caters to 29,321 students overall.

On the student-mix side, LAMAR EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 45%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 36% White, 12% Black, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the income-and-resources front, LAMAR EL reports 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting LAMAR EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Randall County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LAMAR EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.7%, the actual is 33.4%, a residual of -2.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Randall County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,864 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Randall County's 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,668 students), LAMAR EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is CORONADO EL, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LAMAR EL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 44.3%.

LAMAR EL operates from a metropolitan location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LAMAR EL has shrank 17%, going from 337 students in 2018 to 281 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 39% to 45% over that span.

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