Thomas R Culver Elementary School

Size

Thomas R Culver Elementary School is the 7th largest of Lamar CISD's 33 elementary schools; its 828 students are 1.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 4.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 597; Thomas R Culver 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 4 with 140 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 89, against an average of 118 per grade. This year grade 5 has 13% more students than kindergarten (126 against 112). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 89 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 55.3% here and 38.9% across Lamar CISD. Black students are next, at 27.7%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

60.1% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 43% across Lamar CISD 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 50.69 full-time-equivalent teachers for 828 students, Thomas R Culver Elementary School has 16.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 828 students would have about 55.9 teachers, so Thomas R Culver Elementary School has 5.2 fewer.

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

Location

Thomas R Culver Elementary School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Meyer Elementary School, 1.6 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 20 other elementary schools, 6 of them within 5 miles.

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