LAMAR MIDDLE

LAMAR MIDDLE is a junior high of average-sized scale in IRVING, Texas, one of the schools within IRVING ISD, educateing 676 students in grades 6 through 8.

Across the 37 schools in IRVING ISD (31,918 students total), LAMAR MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, LAMAR MIDDLE lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%). Other groups include 9% White, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, LAMAR MIDDLE logs 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, LAMAR MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.2%; this one delivers 39.9%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Dallas County) logs that median household income runs about $76,547, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), LAMAR MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

BROWN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LAMAR MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, LAMAR MIDDLE comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 30.0%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. LAMAR MIDDLE's enrollment has edged down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 839 (now 676).

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