LAMAR HIGH SCHOOL Go back
3325 WESTHEIMER RD
HOUSTON, TX 77098
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Phone: 713-522-5960
School Information
  • GreatSchools Rating: 7
  • Educational Climate: High
  • Technology Measure: Medium
  • Type: Public
  • Grades: 9th Grade - 12th Grade
  • District: Houston Independent School District
  • Students/Teacher: 20
  • Students/Grade: 800
  • Number Students: 3200
  • Number Teachers: 162
  • Number Classrooms: 100
  • Expense/Pupil: $5,100.00 - 5,299.99
  • Poverty Level: 16 - 29.9 PERCENT
  • Number Computers: 325
  • Number PCs: 250
  • Number Macs: 075
  • Principal: Dr James Mcswain
  • CHARTER SCHOOL
  • GIFTED AND TALENTED PROGRAMS
  • ESL
  • SPECIAL EDUCATION
  • ADVANCED PLACEMENT
  • BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS
  • ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS
  • YEAR ROUND CLASSES
  • VOC-TECH
  • ADULT EDUCATION
  • NCLB SCHOOL
  • BLUE RIBBON SCHOOL
  • COALITION OF ESSENTIAL SCHOOLS
  • AYP SCHOOL
  • INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE
  • MAGNET SCHOOL
School Ratings & Reviews

School Ratings (63 ratings)
Maximum Rating: 5




    School Reviews (49 Reviews)
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    Parent Review | Rating:
    Posted 2012-05-11
    "Absolutely worst school in Houston, you are better sending your child to a "lower rated" school in a worst part of town and you may even get better faculty and teachers. According to this website, a great school has excellent teachers, strong principal, and challenging academic programs. The only part I can really attest to is the last one and that is that the IB program is pretty challenging and gets students college ready. However, the majority of this ghetto school chooses not to participate in this. All the good teachers have left, or are trying their hardest to. It isn't a school ,it's a daycare. The teachers don't teach, the kids teach themselves. The handful of teachers here that are great really need to move onto a better school. I am ashamed to say that my child has gone here and I don't plan on keeping her here next year. I don't intend to send my younger children here either. If you can afford it, send them to a private school, if not, try Bellaire. Maybe there the students know who the principal is, whats his name again? I don't think anyone really knows or cares who the principal is, he doesn't do anything anyways. STAY AWAY FROM LAMAR."
    Parent Review | Rating:
    Posted 2012-04-05
    "I believe the principal and administration are doing the best they can with the limited tools and budget they have, not to mention their daily batle with a too-powerful teacher's union. Do you really think the principal or staff can pick and choose which students should attend Lamar? Do you think the principal would love to fire some of the dead-weight teachers he is forced to keep? (Note there are some outstanding teachers still at Lamar H.S.) I feel America (and some of bloggers) blame our education system for our youth's short-comings, however I believe the root of the problem is a "man crisis" in this country. Specifically, no man in the house (or an unengaged/uninterested man in the house) usually equals an unmotivated, unaccountable and undisciplined kid which creates a bad learning and social environment for the rest of the kids. Teen pregnancies, drug and alchohol use (not just experimenting), doing the minimum amount of academics just to get a diploma (or dropping out)...usually symptons of a 1 parent family. Look, it's hard enough to raise to a child today with two fit and engaged parents that are watching their kids like a hawk! Stop blaming the school system."
    Parent Review | Rating:
    Posted 2012-03-28
    "My child applied to several magnet programs and chose Lamar. My child enjoys his teachers but still could not recognize the principal out of a lineup. Very impersonal school. We had problems with a teacher exhibiting incompetence and inappropriateness in the classroom. Don't bother going to the principal. He doesn't care. You might get lip service but he will protect the teacher. His 'investigation' is to find out what the teacher says and back them. HISD has more issues than finance and testing. It is a broken system. They are banking on the fact that the family will not go public with an issue in the classroom and cover the issue up to protect themselves. Very disappointed."
    Parent Review | Rating:
    Posted 2012-03-01
    "This once great school has deteriorated into a ghetto school. The prime reason for this is the principal who would be compared to the Roman emperor Nero who played his fiddle while Rome burned around him. He refuses to believe there is anything wrong with the school while he isolates himself in his office. My child couldn't even identify who he is when I showed her a group of faculty pictures. He has allowed a large group of unmotivated and under achieving students to be transferred to the campus which is causing havoc in many of the classes. The classes are 40+ students, the teachers are miserable, and teachers are planning on leaving if they can find a job somewhere else. I'm transferring my child to Vanguard High School or Bellaire for the next school year. It's a crying shame that the HISD administration doesn't hold this man accountable for what he has done to this school."
    Student Review | Rating:
    Posted 2012-02-23
    "Disgusting. This school smells like dead people, there are ants crawling everywhere, rats in classrooms too! Not only that, it's terrible! I have over thirty five kids in all my classes, and that's the lowest! I haven't learned one thing in my freshman year here and am trying to find a school to switch to. I'm so behind and most my teachers don't even teach me anything. This school spends money on stuff for looking good than teaching the kids! I give kudos to my algebra teacher though, he's amazing! It's to small for all the kids, and it's terrible sitting in those small classrooms.It's also really ghetto. The only good thing is that the kids are very open minded and you will make friends easily here. But there are a lot of drugs floating around the school. I've heard that it gets better your Junior year. Nevertheless, I hate this school, and it is disgusting. And I dont' know many kids who like it. I actually know a lot of kids who are switching next year. To each is their own though."
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