Lamar Elementary School

Size

Of the 15 elementary schools in San Angelo ISD, Lamar Elementary School is the largest, with 4.5% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 3.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 426; Lamar Elementary School is larger than most of them.

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 3 with 124 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 80, against an average of 97 per grade. This year grade 5 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 Hispanic students: 50.1% here and 62.6% across San Angelo ISD. White students are next, at 36.6%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

44.6% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 58% across San Angelo ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

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

Teachers

With 38.29 full-time-equivalent teachers for 579 students, Lamar Elementary School has 15.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 579 students would have about 39.1 teachers, so Lamar Elementary School has about as many as that.

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

Location

Lamar Elementary School is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other elementary school is Bonham Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 14 other elementary schools, 5 of them within 5 miles.

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