Dunbar Primary School

Size

Dunbar Primary School is the 6th largest of Lufkin ISD's 11 elementary schools; its 268 students are 3.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 263; Dunbar Primary School is close to their typical size.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 1 with 100 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 80, against an average of 89 per grade. This year grade 2 has 10% more students than kindergarten (88 against 80). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is White students: 34.3% here and 20.8% across Lufkin ISD. Black students are next, at 33.6%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

86.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 86.8% across Lufkin ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 20.4 full-time-equivalent teachers for 268 students, Dunbar Primary School has 13.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 268 students would have about 18.1 teachers, so Dunbar Primary School has 2.3 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Dunbar Primary School is in a town more than 35 miles from an urbanized area, which NCES calls town, remote. The nearest other elementary school is Brandon Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 14 other elementary schools, 10 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.