LOMAX J H

LOMAX J H is one of the tight-knit junior highs in LA PORTE, Texas, overseen by LA PORTE ISD, with 540 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8.

LA PORTE ISD comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 7,099 students; LOMAX J H is among them.

On the student-mix side, LOMAX J H lists that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 35% White, 6% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LOMAX J H performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.3%, the actual is 47.5%, a residual of -6.8 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Harris County put the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which LOMAX J H is one.

The closest other public school is LOMAX EL, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LOMAX J H comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.4%.

LOMAX J H operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LOMAX J H has ticked down 12%, going from 614 students in 2018 to 540 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 49% to 56% over that span.

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