LANDERGIN EL

Set in AMARILLO, Texas, LANDERGIN EL is a small elementary-level community, operated by AMARILLO ISD. It teaches 260 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 50% leaner than the state mean of about 519.

LANDERGIN EL is one of 55 schools operated by AMARILLO ISD, a district that enrolls 29,321 students overall.

On demographics, LANDERGIN EL reports that 61% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 28% White, 8% Black, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

In terms of school funding signals, LANDERGIN EL shows 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting LANDERGIN EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 92% of students at LANDERGIN EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Randall County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LANDERGIN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.7%, the actual is 42.9%, a residual of +9.2 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Randall County put median household income runs about $83,864, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Randall County's 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,668 students), LANDERGIN EL is one campus in the mix.

LAMAR EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LANDERGIN EL. On composite proficiency, LANDERGIN EL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.1%.

LANDERGIN EL operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 21%: 330 students in 2018 compared to 260 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 55% to 61%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

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