LAMAR EL

Located at 301 WATERS AVE, in DEL RIO, Texas, LAMAR EL is a mid-sized primary school that works with 547 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD.

SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 9,767 students; LAMAR EL is among them.

Demographically, LAMAR EL records that nearly all students (97%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 2% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

On the resource side, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting LAMAR EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 87% of students at LAMAR EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Val Verde County (around 72%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LAMAR EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.9%, the actual is 39.4%, a residual of +3.5 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Val Verde County) records that the typical household earns roughly $66,100 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. LAMAR EL is one of 20 public schools in Val Verde County (combined enrollment of about 10,448 students).

The closest other public school is SAN FELIPE MEMORIAL MIDDLE, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LAMAR EL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 35.7%.

LAMAR EL operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LAMAR EL has ticked down 5%, going from 575 students in 2018 to 547 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 in 2025.

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