STAFF SERGEANT LUCIAN ADAMS EL

As a reasonably sized elementary-level community in PORT ARTHUR, Texas, STAFF SERGEANT LUCIAN ADAMS EL serves 644 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within PORT ARTHUR ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 24% bigger than the state mean of about 519.

STAFF SERGEANT LUCIAN ADAMS EL is one of 13 schools operated by PORT ARTHUR ISD, a district that caters to 8,041 students overall.

On the student-mix side, STAFF SERGEANT LUCIAN ADAMS EL logs that 60% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 3% White, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting STAFF SERGEANT LUCIAN ADAMS EL higher than the state norm the norm. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), STAFF SERGEANT LUCIAN ADAMS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.9%, the actual is 31.7%, a residual of -5.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate median household income runs about $60,026, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across Jefferson County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,825 students), STAFF SERGEANT LUCIAN ADAMS EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is MEMORIAL H S, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, STAFF SERGEANT LUCIAN ADAMS EL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 41%: 456 students in 2018 compared to 644 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

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