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LAMAR MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 31 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 MIDDLE
As a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in FLOWER MOUND, Texas, LAMAR MIDDLE serves 716 students from grades 6 through 8, part of LEWISVILLE ISD.
LEWISVILLE ISD runs 62 schools in total, collectively educating 47,876 students. LAMAR MIDDLE is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, LAMAR MIDDLE shows that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 28% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 8% Black, 5% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.
Looking at school resources, On paper, LAMAR MIDDLE has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 24% of students at LAMAR MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LAMAR MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.4%, the actual is 63.0%, a residual of -0.4 points.
In the broader community, census data for Denton County shows median household earnings sit near $111,498, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Denton County's 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), LAMAR MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: PRAIRIE TRAIL EL, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LAMAR MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, LAMAR MIDDLE comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 54.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Five-year trend. LAMAR MIDDLE's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 718 (now 716). White enrollment moved from 58% to 47% across the same window.
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