Viola Gilmore Randle Elementary School

Size

Of the 33 elementary schools in Lamar CISD, Viola Gilmore Randle Elementary School is the 10th largest, with 1.7% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 929; Viola Gilmore Randle Elementary 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 kindergarten with 136 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 98, against an average of 116 per grade. This year grade 5 has 17% fewer students than kindergarten (113 against 136). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 108 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 29.5% here and 38.9% across Lamar CISD. White students are next, at 22.7%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

29.3% 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. 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 38.55 full-time-equivalent teachers for 809 students, Viola Gilmore Randle Elementary School has 21 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 809 students would have about 54.7 teachers, so Viola Gilmore Randle Elementary School has 16.2 fewer.

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

Location

Viola Gilmore Randle 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 Huggins Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 49 other elementary schools, 16 of them within 5 miles.

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