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Lasara Elem

Willacy County · Region 01: Edinburg · 226 students

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Current score
82/1002025-26
Change
−8 ptssince 2021-22
Score vs similar economic context
+4.5 ptsvs 77.5 average · 2,228 rated schools serving a similar economic context
Similar economic-disadvantage rate placement
754 of 2,228tied with 94 others
B82

At a glance

Under TEA’s current rules, the available rating history is moving down; under the rules in force back then it scored 85 in 2021-22. The current score is above the 77.5 average for 2,228 rated schools serving a similar economic context.

Evidence worth noticing

Strengths and momentum

Recent movement

Overall score rose 10 points

72 to 82 2024-25 to 2025-26

  • 82 is 4.5 points above the 77.5 average among 2,228 schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate reporting this measure.
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Recent domain gain

Closing the Gaps rose 12 points

70 to 82 2024-25 to 2025-26

  • 82 is 7.4 points above the 74.6 average among 2,037 schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate reporting this measure.
See the full measure

Current strength

School Progress above the similar-context average

82 +3.3 pts vs 78.7

  • 82 is 3.3 points above the 78.7 average among 2,051 schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate reporting this measure.
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Selected positive signals, not a summary of performance. The same rules choose them on every page: only the latest one-year gain, results meaningfully better than the currently selected comparison with broad reporting, and distinctive top-three placements. Demographics, staffing and spending cannot become academic “wins.” The overall rating and the full results below remain the complete picture for this school.

Read the full rating context and placement

Lasara Elem is rated B by TEA, scoring 82 out of 100 for 2025-26 — above the 77.5 average for 2,228 rated schools serving a similar economic context. It is down 8 points since 2021-22.

Ranks 754th of 2,228 rated schools serving a similar economic context (tied with 94 others).

Put the numbers in context

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  1. Overview
  2. 5 years of ratings
  3. Where the score comes from
  4. Student outcomes
  5. Who this school serves
  6. Student counts behind the percentages
  7. Enrollment over time
  8. Discipline and removal from class
  9. Spending per student
  10. Teachers and actual class size
  11. Where this school ranks best
  12. Where this comes from

5 years of ratings

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Compare against
9080706050 Similar economic-disadvantage rateTexas averageLasara Elem 9065617282 2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-26

2021-22 is shown under the refreshed methodology TEA adopted in 2023, so it is comparable with later years. Under the original scoring it was rated B with 85 that year.

Comparison lines follow the current rated cohort backward through time. The table gives the number in that fixed cohort that reported a score each year; it can be smaller than cohort membership.

View the yearly scores and comparisons
Rating history with comparisons
YearRatingScoreSelected comparisonSimilar economic-disadvantage rateStateTexas average
2025-26B8277.5 2,228 reporting81.3 7,646 reporting
2024-25C7277.1 2,213 reporting81.2 7,554 reporting
2023-24D6174.5 2,196 reporting78.9 7,466 reporting
2022-23D6574.9 2,180 reporting79.1 7,377 reporting
2021-22A9081.7 2,159 reporting83.7 7,283 reporting

Where the score comes from

Texas builds the overall rating from the better of Student Achievement and School Progress, weighted 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. School Progress is itself the better of Academic Growth and Relative Performance. The 60, 70, 80 and 90 rules mark the letter-grade thresholds.

  • Student Achievement67 D−5.0 vs similar economic context · 2,058 reporting
  • School Progress82 B+3.3 vs similar economic context · 2,051 reporting
  • Closing the Gaps82 B+7.4 vs similar economic context · 2,037 reporting
  • Academic Growth82 B+9.8 vs similar economic context · 2,005 reporting
  • Relative Performance72 C−5.0 vs similar economic context · 2,051 reporting
  • Lasara Elem
  • Similar economic-disadvantage rate (2,228 in cohort)
Domain scores
DomainScoreGradePoints to next grade
Student Achievement67D3
School Progress82B8
Closing the Gaps82B8
Academic Growth82B8
Relative Performance72C8

Closest to moving up: School Progress, 8 points below A in that domain — the nearest of the measures that count toward the overall rating.

TEA does not add the domains up. The overall score is the better of Student Achievement and School Progress at 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. For this school that better measure is School Progress (82), so Student Achievement (67) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 82.

Student outcomes

STAAR performance

All Subjects

  • Approaches grade level69%+1 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,058 reporting
  • Meets grade level37%−5 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,058 reporting
  • Masters grade level12%−4 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,058 reporting
Reading3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level70%−1 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,056 reporting
  • Meets grade level38%−8 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,056 reporting
  • Masters grade level17%−1 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,056 reporting
Math3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level66%−0 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,046 reporting
  • Meets grade level33%−5 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,046 reporting
  • Masters grade level7%−7 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,046 reporting
Science3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level75%+9 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,902 reporting
  • Meets grade level38%+1 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,902 reporting
  • Masters grade level13%−2 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,902 reporting
Social Studies3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level75%+9 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 807 reporting
  • Meets grade level50%+12 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 807 reporting
  • Masters grade level13%−3 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 807 reporting
  • Approaches grade level
  • Meets grade level
  • Masters grade level
  • Tick: Similar economic-disadvantage rate (2,228 in cohort)

Percentage of tests at or above each level. Masters is a subset of Meets, which is a subset of Approaches. The selected-comparison tick on each bar marks the average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate — a comparison TEA does not publish.

Counts in the comparison controls describe full cohort membership, not the denominator of every average. Each average uses only schools for which TEA reported that measure; metric-specific reporting counts are shown on the STAAR, graduation and CCMR rows and may vary.

Who this school serves

Placed after the results deliberately: this is context for reading them, not an explanation of them.

Students
226
Economically disadvantaged
81.4%−0.7 pts vs similar economic context
English learners
21.2%−9.6 pts vs similar economic context
Special education
15.5%−3.1 pts vs similar economic context
Attendance
93.7%+0.4 pts vs similar economic context
Chronically absent
20.5%−0.5 pts vs similar economic context

Student demographics

Lasara Elem

Hispanic: 97.8%White: 2.2%
  • Hispanic 97.8%
  • White 2.2%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,228 reporting for every category shown · 2,228 in full cohort

African American: 14.2%Hispanic: 69.1%White: 12.2%American Indian: 0.3%Asian: 1.6%Pacific Islander: 0.2%Two or More Races: 2.5%
  • African American 14.2%
  • Hispanic 69.1%
  • White 12.2%
  • American Indian 0.3%
  • Asian 1.6%
  • Pacific Islander 0.2%
  • Two or More Races 2.5%

Student counts behind the percentages

Context only. These counts are not rankings, comparisons, or judgments about school quality.

Students in this TEA accountability summary
226
Economically disadvantaged students
184
Emergent bilingual students
48
Special education students
35

Campus mobility · 2024–25

Mobile students
28
Students in TEA mobility denominator
200
TEA-published mobility rate
14%

The mobility count and rate use TEA’s separate 2024–25 campus denominator shown above, not current enrollment. This site does not recalculate a missing rate.

The first figure is TEA’s student count for this accountability summary. It is a separate publication from the fall PEIMS enrollment shown above and can differ; this site does not substitute one for the other. Counts come from TEA’s 2025-26 accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026. A reported zero is shown as 0. Small-number and complementary masks, unavailable values, and blank not-reported fields stay separate and are never estimated. TEA masking definitions.

Enrollment over time

TEA-reported student enrollment for each available school year. Enrollment growth or decline is not a measure of school quality.

TEA reported 226 students in 2025–26, a decrease of 12 (5.0%) from 2024–25.

Latest enrollment
226

2025–26

Change from 2024–25
−12

Decrease · −5.0%

Change since 2021–22
−5

Decrease · −2.2%

Enrollment in 2025–26

This school
226
Selected comparison
625.4

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,198 rated schools reporting

Student enrollment by school year for Lasara Elem
School yearStudents enrolledLasara ElemChange from previous school yearAverage enrollmentselected comparison
2021–22 231 First available year 653.2
2022–23 251 Increase of 20 (8.7%) 654.7
2023–24 255 Increase of 4 (1.6%) 648.3
2024–25 238 Decrease of 17 (6.7%) 644.7
2025–26 226 Decrease of 12 (5.0%) 625.4

The selected comparison column is the average enrollment among reporting schools in that group. It changes with the comparison control; this school's own counts do not.

Source: TEA PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. TEA reports these counts from its fall student snapshot; changes compare adjacent reported school years.

These counts show how enrollment changed, not why. Attendance-zone changes, school openings or closures, grade reconfigurations, transfers and population shifts can affect the total.

Discipline and removal from class

TEA’s annual student and action counts, kept separate and divided only by the matching full-year enrollment. These figures describe removals from instruction, not a simple safe-or-unsafe score.

Students in TEA’s all-discipline count
12

4.6% of cumulative year-end enrollment

Disciplinary actions
23

8.75 per 100 students

Cumulative year-end enrollment
263

2024–25

Share of students · 2024–25

This school
4.6%
Selected comparison
13.4%

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,610 rated schools reporting

−8.8 pts vs similar economic context

Actions per 100 students · 2024–25

This school
8.75
Selected comparison
32.5

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,720 rated schools reporting

−23.8 vs similar economic context
TEA all-discipline student and action counts by school year for Lasara Elem
School yearCumulative enrollmentStudentsall disciplineStudents% of enrollmentActionsall disciplineActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
2020–21 238 Not reported — Not reported — — —
2021–22 251 10 4.0% 14 5.58 13.0% 31.1
2022–23 269 Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
2023–24 267 Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
2024–25 263 12 4.6% 23 8.75 13.4% 32.5
See 2024–25 discipline categories
TEA discipline categories for Lasara Elem in 2024–25
CategoryStudentsStudents% of enrollmentActionsActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
All discipline 12 4.6% 23 8.75 13.4% 32.5
In-school suspensions 11 4.2% 13 4.94 11.8% 23.5
Out-of-school suspensions Suppressed — 10 3.80 — 13.4
DAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory DAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary DAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —

Selected comparisons use rates, not raw counts, so differently sized schools can be read on the same basis. Each average uses only group members for which TEA reported that rate; this school's own counts and rates remain fixed.

Students, actions and incidents are different units. One student can receive multiple actions. The categories overlap, so they must not be added together. Rates use TEA's matching cumulative year-end enrollment, not the October enrollment shown elsewhere on this page.

Source: TEA Discipline Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. Suppressed values stay unavailable rather than being estimated. Use 2020–21 cautiously because remote instruction during the pandemic changed students' exposure to in-person discipline. TEA consolidated its separate action-group reports into this product in 2024–25; this trend uses only the stable “All discipline” heading.

Spending per student

The campus and its parent district stay fixed while the selected same-sector txschools.net comparison changes with the page-wide control. TEA's own peer group and statewide reference remain visible as separately published, fixed TEA references.

$7k$17k$26k20182020202220242025
  • Lasara Elem
  • Parent district: Lasara ISD
  • Texas average
  • Selected comparison: Similar economic-disadvantage rate

Spending per student · 2025

This school
$12,970
Selected comparison
$13,152

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,212 rated schools reporting

−$182 vs similar economic context

For 2025, TEA reported $12,970 per student for this campus, $23,799 per student for its parent district, Lasara ISD, $18,972 per student for the Texas average.

Not reported in this TEA campus finance record: TEA peer group.

View yearly spending figures
Spending per student by year
YearLasara ElemParent district: Lasara ISDTexas averageSelected comparison averageReportingselected comparison
2018$8,381$16,633$13,054$8,199 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,091 rated schools reporting
2019$8,331$16,703$13,108$8,302 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,117 rated schools reporting
2020$10,118$19,227$14,058$8,804 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,132 rated schools reporting
2021$9,447$19,937$14,797$9,477 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,142 rated schools reporting
2022$14,017$24,765$15,708$10,912 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,160 rated schools reporting
2023$13,510$23,451$16,792$11,443 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,180 rated schools reporting
2024$12,074$22,640$18,125$12,421 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,196 rated schools reporting
2025$12,970$23,799$18,972$13,152 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,212 rated schools reporting

The selected-comparison reporting count is year-specific and can vary across the table. Dollar amounts are shown as TEA published them and are not adjusted for inflation.

Teachers and actual class size

Average salary
$61,810−$5,481 vs similar economic context
Teachers
17−26.2 vs similar economic context
Students per staff member
13.5−0.8 vs similar economic context

Teaching experience

Lasara Elem

1 to 5 years: 32.3%6 to 10 years: 19.2%11 to 20 years: 22.2%21 to 30 years: 20.4%Over 30 years: 6%
  • 1 to 5 years 32.3%
  • 6 to 10 years 19.2%
  • 11 to 20 years 22.2%
  • 21 to 30 years 20.4%
  • Over 30 years 6%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,228 reporting for every category shown · 2,228 in full cohort

Beginning: 6.9%1 to 5 years: 27.7%6 to 10 years: 19%11 to 20 years: 27%21 to 30 years: 15%Over 30 years: 3.6%
  • Beginning 6.9%
  • 1 to 5 years 27.7%
  • 6 to 10 years 19%
  • 11 to 20 years 27%
  • 21 to 30 years 15%
  • Over 30 years 3.6%

Average students in a class

TEA average class size by grade or subject for Lasara Elem in 2024–25
Grade or subjectAverage students per classLasara Elem · 2024–25Average students per classselected comparison
Kindergarten1818
Grade 113.418.4
Grade 215.218.4
Grade 31318.9
Grade 42118.9
Grade 52420
Grade 616.817.7
Secondary English13.815.3
Secondary languages other than English21.318.2
Secondary math14.916.5
Secondary science17.417.7
Secondary social studies17.417.7

These are TEA's actual class-size averages for the grade or subject shown, not the student-to-teacher ratio. TEA reported 12 of 12 categories for this campus; the categories are not combined into a made-up campus-wide average. Each selected comparison average uses only schools reporting that same grade or subject.

Source: TEA Texas Academic Performance Reports, fetched 24 August 2026.

Where this school ranks best

Out of 117 rankings computed across every published metric and every available comparison group, these are all the measures that meet this site’s distinctive-placement threshold. The list does not change when you change Compare against. Each measure appears once, using its strongest placement. Press Copy for a citable sentence.

#2–3 rankings

Second- and third-place results

2 measures

  • 2of 13

    Attendance

    Willacy County · of the 13 that report this measure

  • 3of 13

    Chronically absent (lowest is best)

    Willacy County · of the 13 that report this measure

#4–10 rankings

Fourth- through tenth-place results

12 measures

  • 6of 13

    Reading — Masters

    Willacy County · of the 13 that report this measure

  • 6of 12

    Academic Growth

    Willacy County · of the 12 that report this measure · tied with 1

  • 7of 13

    Per-student spending

    Willacy County · of the 13 that report this measure

  • 8of 13

    All Subjects — Masters

    Willacy County · of the 13 that report this measure

  • 9of 13

    Math — Meets

    Willacy County · of the 13 that report this measure

  • 9of 13

    Math — Masters

    Willacy County · of the 13 that report this measure

  • 10of 13

    Reading — Approaches

    Willacy County · of the 13 that report this measure · tied with 1

  • 10of 13

    Math — Approaches

    Willacy County · of the 13 that report this measure

  • 10of 12

    Closing the Gaps

    Willacy County · of the 12 that report this measure

  • 10of 12

    Science — Approaches

    Willacy County · of the 12 that report this measure

  • 10of 12

    Science — Meets

    Willacy County · of the 12 that report this measure

  • 10of 12

    Science — Masters

    Willacy County · of the 12 that report this measure

These are selected high placements, not a summary. Every figure above this section is the full picture, including where this school ranks poorly. Each measure appears once here, using its strongest qualifying placement across all available comparison groups. Very large ties are left out because they do not distinguish this school; any tie that does appear is labeled. Every ranking this site publishes, including the ones no school would put in a press release.

Where this comes from

The Texas Education Agency publishes the underlying accountability reports and data downloads. Ratings, outcomes, demographics, staffing and finance on this page come from TEA data available through txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026. TEA’s Reports and Data Portal links the official bulk files. Enrollment history comes from TEA's PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations reports, fetched 24 August 2026. The student-count context comes from TEA’s bulk accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026; TEA’s masking definitions explain withheld values. The dated notice, staffing, discipline, transfer, community and postsecondary sections cite their separate TEA, Census or THECB publication in place. Every archived source carries checksums so each number stays traceable to the bytes the public agency served.

Download the full dataset · this campus's district

Single-file records are pre-built for district-level records only, so there is no per-campus CSV to link here. Producing both formats for every entity would consume most of the 20,000-asset deployment limit before pages and shared data are counted. This campus is a row in the bulk files on the download page, keyed by its TEA id 245901101.