NYOS LAMAR SECONDARY

NYOS LAMAR SECONDARY is one of the mid-tier secondary schools in AUSTIN, Texas, operated by NYOS CHARTER SCHOOL, with 809 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12.

NYOS CHARTER SCHOOL comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 1,667 students; NYOS LAMAR SECONDARY is among them.

Demographically, NYOS LAMAR SECONDARY records that the largest single group is White at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder consists of 33% Hispanic, 16% Black, 10% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 55% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Travis County (around 54%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, NYOS LAMAR SECONDARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.8%; this one delivers 57.9%.

In the surrounding community, Travis County reports that median household earnings sit near $99,611, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Travis County runs 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), of which NYOS LAMAR SECONDARY is one.

NYOS LAMAR EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NYOS LAMAR SECONDARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NYOS LAMAR SECONDARY at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 33.4%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. As a public charter, NYOS LAMAR SECONDARY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. NYOS LAMAR SECONDARY's enrollment has grew 26% since 2018, when it stood at 641 (now 809). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 46% to 37%.

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