TX
Lamar State College-Port Arthur
0.85 incidents / 1,000 students
Port Arthur, TX · Clery Act 2024 · Public
Lamar State College-Port Arthur
Across 2022–2024, Lamar State College-Port Arthur reported 8 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, with no net change between the first and last filed year; largest filed category is Burglary.
- 0.85
- Incidents / 1k students
- #555
- Rank of 2,072
- #106
- TX rank
- 4,680
- Enrolled students
0.85 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Lamar State College-Port Arthur reports 0.85 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 59% below Simmons University. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Simmons University (3.64/1k); Wayne State College (1.93/1k); Providence College (3.86/1k); Northwest Shoals Community College (0.00/1k); Harding University (1.06/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Paris Junior College (0.22/1k); Texarkana College (0.00/1k); Coastal Bend College (0.23/1k); Hill College (0.72/1k); Howard College (0.24/1k); Temple College (1.33/1k); Angelina College (0.00/1k); Wharton County Junior College (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Burglary.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 0.85
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #555
- safer than ranked campuses its size
- 73%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 2
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 226116 · Lamar State College-Port Arthur 0.85/1k score rate · #555/2,072
RATE-QUIET · RANK-MID · ST-MID · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-FLAT · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO
- RATE-QUIET 0.85/1k
- RANK-MID #555/2,072
- ST-MID #106 in state
- BELOW-PEER Harding University · 0.21 back
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-FLAT Flat
- CAT-LEAD Burglary
- ENR-SMALL 4,680
- FIRE-ZERO 0 fires filed
Nearest enrollment peer: Harding University (+0.21/1k)
Lamar State College-Port Arthur sheet RATE-QUIET · RANK-MID · ST-MID · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-FLAT · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO · peer Harding University. Codes from this campus OPE filing: score-category rate, national/state rank, named enrollment peer, zero posture, Criminal Offenses trend, lead category, enrollment band, fire filing. Not a moving recommendation.
Clery plate RATE-QUIET · RANK-MID · ST-MID · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-FLAT · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Harding University (+0.21/1k). National rank #555 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Lamar State College-Port Arthur reports 0.85 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 59% below Simmons University. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Simmons University (3.64/1k); Wayne State College (1.93/1k); Providence College (3.86/1k); Northwest Shoals Community College (0.00/1k); Harding University (1.06/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Paris Junior College (0.22/1k); Texarkana College (0.00/1k); Coastal Bend College (0.23/1k); Hill College (0.72/1k); Howard College (0.24/1k); Temple College (1.33/1k); Angelina College (0.00/1k); Wharton County Junior College (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Burglary.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Lamar State College-Port
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Lamar on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Northwest Shoals Community College · lowest peer 0
Northwest Shoals Community College — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- Lamar State College-Port Arthur · this campus 0.85
Lamar State College-Port Arthur — this campus
0.85 per 1,000 students
- Harding University · near 1.06
Harding University — near
1.06 per 1,000 students
- Wayne State College · near
Wayne State College — near
1.93 per 1,000 students
- Providence College · highest peer
Providence College — highest peer
3.86 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Lamar State College-Port Arthur's 0.85/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Lamar State College-Port Arthur decreased from 4 to 2 reported on-campus incidents between the 2023 and 2024 reporting years in the U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey.
This is a change in reported incidents, not a measure of individual safety. Enrollment, reporting practice, and category coverage can affect the count.
See national reporting-year changesSignature insight · size does not equal danger
Campus size vs reported safety rate
Among 37 TX 2-year peers in this comparison, Lamar State College-Port Arthur is larger than 72% and safer-reporting than 11% - the larger, higher-reporting quadrant. Axes are within-sample percentiles so outliers share the same frame; a higher safety percentile means a lower Clery incidents-per-1,000 rate.
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- Point 1: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 22
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 39
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 56, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 28
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 83, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 42, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 17
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 92, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 36
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 17, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 11, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 8, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 33: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 31
- Point 34: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 8
- Point 35: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 36: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Lamar State College-Port A…: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 11
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The College of Health Care Professions-McAllen Campus | 787 | 0.00 | 0 | 50 |
| Rio Grande Valley College | 832 | 0.00 | 3 | 50 |
| The College of Health Care Professions-Austin | 974 | 1.03 | 6 | 8 |
| Pima Medical Institute-Houston | 1,068 | 0.00 | 8 | 50 |
| The College of Health Care Professions-Fort Worth | 1,076 | 0.00 | 11 | 50 |
| Southern Careers Institute-San Antonio | 1,089 | 0.00 | 14 | 50 |
| Universal Technical Institute-West Texas | 1,335 | 0.00 | 17 | 50 |
| Western Texas College | 1,385 | 0.00 | 19 | 50 |
| Lincoln College of Technology-Grand Prairie | 1,539 | 0.00 | 22 | 50 |
| Clarendon College | 1,564 | 0.00 | 25 | 50 |
| Universal Technical Institute-Dallas Fort Worth | 1,610 | 1.86 | 28 | 0 |
| Lamar State College-Port Arthur (this campus) | 4,680 | 0.85 | 72 | 11 |
Sample of 12 campuses from the plot (sorted by enrollment). Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey + IPEDS enrollment. Rate = on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 students; lower is safer-reporting, not a personal-risk forecast.
What changed between 2023 and 2024
Reported on-campus incidents at Lamar State College-Port Arthur fell from 4 to 2 (-50%). The increase shows up in Robbery (0 to 1). Falling over the same period: Burglary (4 to 1).
This describes reported incidents, not crime. Clery counts move with reporting policy, awareness campaigns and how a campus staffs its security authorities, so a rise can reflect better capture of reports and a fall can reflect worse capture. One year of movement at a single campus is not a trend.
What actually gets reported at Lamar State College-Port Arthur
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 2 Clery Act categories here: Burglary and Robbery. Burglary accounts for most of them.
The remaining 9 categories were reported with no on-campus incidents, among them Aggravated Assault, Arson, Fondling and Incest. Under the Clery Act that zero is an affirmative report that nothing in the category occurred, not an absence of data, which is why the table below lists those rows rather than dropping them.
Counts describe incidents reported under the Clery Act for the on-campus geography. Reporting practice varies between institutions, so counts are not a direct measure of relative safety.
Crime Statistics by Year
11 categories 3 reporting years on-campus onlyLamar State College-Port Arthur: Criminal Offenses by year
Stable 0% (2 → 2 incidents)
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2023 | 4 |
| 2024 | 2 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| Robbery | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fondling | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Incest | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Statutory Rape | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: US Dept of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey. Table figures show the Criminal Offenses section; other Clery tables are separate
Fire Safety
| Year | Fires | Inj. | Deaths | Cat I | Cat II |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Arrests & Disciplinary Actions
9 category-year records| Category | Year | Arrests | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 1 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
Lamar State College-Port Arthur vs peer institutions
Side-by-side safety scores for 3 peers of similar enrollment
Scores are $2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students (lower is fewer in those categories).
MA
Simmons University
3.64 incidents / 1,000 students
NE
Wayne State College
1.93 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Lamar State College-Port Arthur sits on price and outcomes
At $2,846, Lamar State College-Port Arthur's reported average net price is among the lowest reported prices among 337 Texas colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $18,267.
- $2,846
- average net price
- $18,267
- Texas median
- 2.2×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $8,209
- reported income-bracket spread
Aid here is steeply income-scaled. Families reporting under $30,000 of income record a net price of $1,137, while those above $110,000 record $9,346 - roughly 8.2 times as much. A published average of $2,846 therefore describes very few families well; the bracket nearest your own income is the more useful figure.
Six years after enrolling, the median former student who received federal aid reports $29,746 - about 10.5 times one year of the reported net price here. On that ratio the cost is recovered quickly. Only 38% complete within six years. Most students here do not finish, which is the single most important number on this page for anyone weighing the cost.
Average net price reflects grant and scholarship aid for aided students, not a personal offer. Earnings cover former students who received federal aid; neither measure predicts an individual's outcome.
Academic & Financial Profile
Tuition & Costs
- In-State Tuition
- $1,770
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $8,070
- Avg Net Price
- $2,846
- Median Debt
- $13,250
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 21%
Outcomes
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $29,746
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $37,120
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 43%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,109 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Simmons University
Boston, MA · 4,666 enrolled
Safety Score 3.64
Wayne State College
Wayne, NE · 4,666 enrolled
Safety Score 1.93
Providence College
Providence, RI · 4,666 enrolled
Safety Score 3.86
Northwest Shoals Community College
Muscle Shoals, AL · 4,665 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Harding University
Searcy, AR · 4,696 enrolled
Safety Score 1.06
Closest by National Rank
Lamar State College-Port Arthur (national rank #555) sits near SUNY Westchester Community College (#556) and Southeastern Oklahoma State University (#554) on the scored national list, nearest by rank, not by size or state.
SUNY Westchester Community College
Valhalla, NY
National Rank #556
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Durant, OK
National Rank #554
University of Central Missouri
Warrensburg, MO
National Rank #557
Evergreen Beauty and Barber College-Everett
Everett, WA
National Rank #553
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT
National Rank #552
Nationwide campuses with similar scale or Clery rate
Two Clery-derived peer sets for Lamar State College-Port Arthur, both outside TX so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar enrollment (nationwide)
Northwest Shoals Community College
Muscle Shoals, AL · 4,665 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
College of the Redwoods
Eureka, CA · 4,706 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Northern Essex Community College
Haverhill, MA · 4,721 enrolled
Safety score 0.42
Edison State Community College
Piqua, OH · 4,624 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Mohave Community College
Kingman, AZ · 4,619 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Jones County Junior College
Ellisville, MS · 4,753 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Central Maine Community College
Auburn, ME · 4,754 enrolled
Safety score 1.47
Lewis and Clark Community College
Godfrey, IL · 4,606 enrolled
Safety score 0.22
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
SUNY Westchester Community College
Valhalla, NY · 9,359 enrolled
Safety score 0.85
Western Dakota Technical College
Rapid City, SD · 1,164 enrolled
Safety score 0.86
Lawson State Community College
Birmingham, AL · 3,453 enrolled
Safety score 0.87
North Shore Community College
Danvers, MA · 5,743 enrolled
Safety score 0.87
Northeast Mississippi Community College
Booneville, MS · 3,442 enrolled
Safety score 0.87
Western Technical College
La Crosse, WI · 3,625 enrolled
Safety score 0.83
College of Marin
Kentfield, CA · 4,838 enrolled
Safety score 0.83
Gavilan College
Gilroy, CA · 6,083 enrolled
Safety score 0.82
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Lamar State College-Port Arthur safe?
Lamar State College-Port Arthur has a safety score of 0.85 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #555 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: Simmons University (3.64/1k). Same-state same-level set: Paris Junior College (0.22/1k); Texarkana College (0.00/1k); Coastal Bend College (0.23/1k); Hill College (0.72/1k); Howard College (0.24/1k); Temple College (1.33/1k); Angelina College (0.00/1k); Wharton County Junior College (0.00/1k).
What crimes are reported at Lamar State College-Port Arthur?
For calendar year 2024, Lamar State College-Port Arthur reported Burglary (1) and Robbery (1) in the Criminal Offenses section. Every other category in that section was reported at zero; other Clery tables are separate.
How does Lamar State College-Port Arthur compare to similar schools?
Lamar State College-Port Arthur reports 59% fewer 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than Simmons University. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: Simmons University (3.64/1k); Wayne State College (1.93/1k); Providence College (3.86/1k); Northwest Shoals Community College (0.00/1k); Harding University (1.06/1k). Same-state same-level set: Paris Junior College (0.22/1k); Texarkana College (0.00/1k); Coastal Bend College (0.23/1k); Hill College (0.72/1k); Howard College (0.24/1k); Temple College (1.33/1k); Angelina College (0.00/1k); Wharton County Junior College (0.00/1k).
Does Lamar State College-Port Arthur have fire safety data?
Yes. Lamar State College-Port Arthur reports fire safety data for on-campus residential facilities, including total fires, injuries, deaths, and fire damage categories. No fires were reported in the most recent year.
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