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LAMAR JH
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 39 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 23 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LAMAR JH
LAMAR JH, a large middle school in ROSENBERG, Texas, overseen by LAMAR CISD, educates 1,194 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so LAMAR JH sits 86% above that benchmark.
Within LAMAR CISD, which oversees 49 schools and 46,786 students, LAMAR JH is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, LAMAR JH lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 23% Black, 12% White, 7% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, On paper, LAMAR JH has 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 65% of students at LAMAR JH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Fort Bend County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LAMAR JH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.4%, the actual is 43.3%, a residual of -2.1 points.
In the surrounding community, census data for Fort Bend County shows median household income runs about $114,041, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. LAMAR JH is one of 217 public schools in Fort Bend County (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students).
Nearest neighbor: LAMAR CONS H S, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LAMAR JH ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 43.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a residential area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 41%: 848 students in 2018 compared to 1,194 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.
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