SUNDOWN LANE EL

SUNDOWN LANE EL is a cozy elementary campus in AMARILLO, Texas, run under CANYON ISD. The school educates 344 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so SUNDOWN LANE EL sits 34% leaner than that benchmark.

CANYON ISD runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 11,565 students. SUNDOWN LANE EL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, SUNDOWN LANE EL records that 55% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 40% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 51% of students at SUNDOWN LANE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, SUNDOWN LANE EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.7%; this one delivers 59.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Randall County) reports that median household income runs about $83,864, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Randall County's 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,668 students), SUNDOWN LANE EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PINNACLE INT, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SUNDOWN LANE EL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.0%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. SUNDOWN LANE EL's enrollment has ticked up 22% since 2018, when it stood at 282 (now 344). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 26% to 40%. Class-load math has widened: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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