Lamar Middle School

Size

Of the 4 middle schools in Laredo ISD, Lamar Middle School is the largest, with 5.9% of the district's students. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 2.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 724; Lamar Middle 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 8 with 426 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 379, against an average of 401 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 399 in grade 6 and 426 in grade 8.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

All of its students are reported as Hispanic.

94.6% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 97.1% across Laredo ISD and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle 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 81.4 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,204 students, Lamar Middle School has 14.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 1,204 students would have about 83.6 teachers, so Lamar Middle School has 2.2 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

Location

Lamar Middle School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is Memorial Middle School, 1.6 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 17 other middle schools, 12 of them within 5 miles.

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