NORTH LAMAR INT
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 9 points since 2020, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 NORTH LAMAR INT
NORTH LAMAR INT operates as a mid-sized elementary-level community in PARIS, Texas, part of NORTH LAMAR ISD. Current enrollment sits at 593 students spanning grades 2 through 5.
Within NORTH LAMAR ISD, which oversees 5 schools and 2,395 students, NORTH LAMAR INT is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, NORTH LAMAR INT lists that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 15% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Black.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, NORTH LAMAR INT performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 44.0%, a residual of -6.3 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Lamar County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,880 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. In all, Lamar County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,516 students), of which NORTH LAMAR INT is one.
NORTH LAMAR H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NORTH LAMAR INT ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 40.9%.
The school occupies a rural site.
Five-year trend. NORTH LAMAR INT's enrollment has expanded 78% since 2018, when it stood at 333 (now 593). The White share of enrollment contracted from 76% to 69% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.
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