SOUTH LAWN EL

Located at 4719 S BOWIE, in AMARILLO, Texas, SOUTH LAWN EL is a cozy K-5 school that hosts 325 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under AMARILLO ISD. That puts it 37% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

SOUTH LAWN EL is one of 55 schools operated by AMARILLO ISD, a district that teaches 29,321 students overall.

On demographics, SOUTH LAWN EL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 39% White, 10% Black, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, SOUTH LAWN EL has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SOUTH LAWN EL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Randall County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SOUTH LAWN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.4%, the actual is 40.6%, a residual of +4.2 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Randall County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $83,864 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Randall County's 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,668 students), SOUTH LAWN EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: FANNIN MIDDLE, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SOUTH LAWN EL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 27%: 448 students in 2018 compared to 325 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 45% to 39% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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