SMITH EL

SMITH EL is a compact primary school in RICHMOND, Texas, part of LAMAR CISD. The school instructs 307 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 41% leaner than the state mean of about 519.

LAMAR CISD comprises 49 schools with combined enrollment of 46,786 students; SMITH EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, SMITH EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 76% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 12% Black, 8% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Fort Bend County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SMITH EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.6%, the actual is 42.5%, a residual of +1.9 points.

Across the wider county, Fort Bend County reports that the typical household earns roughly $114,041 per year, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Fort Bend County's 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), SMITH EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BROOKESMITH DAVINCI, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SMITH EL comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.4%.

SMITH EL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 27%: 420 students in 2018 compared to 307 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 70% to 76% over that span.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.