LAMAR EL

LAMAR EL is an elementary school of average-sized scale in MIDLAND, Texas, one of the schools within MIDLAND ISD, caters to 604 students in grades pre-K through 6.

MIDLAND ISD comprises 40 schools with combined enrollment of 29,651 students; LAMAR EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, LAMAR EL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%); the rest reads as 10% White, 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 46% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Roughly 86% of students at LAMAR EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Midland County (around 57%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LAMAR EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.3%; this one delivers 26.8%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Midland County indicate median household income runs about $92,874, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. LAMAR EL is one of 52 public schools in Midland County (combined enrollment of about 35,119 students).

TEXAS LEADERSHIP OF MIDLAND is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LAMAR EL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LAMAR EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 31.4%.

LAMAR EL operates from a city-core location. LAMAR EL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. LAMAR EL's enrollment has edged up 11% since 2018, when it stood at 544 (now 604).

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.