Houston Elementary

Houston Elementary is an elementary campus of middle-of-the-pack scale in Visalia, California, operated by Visalia Unified, hosting 523 students in grades K through 6.

Visalia Unified runs 41 schools in total, collectively educating 28,725 students. Houston Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Houston Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%). Other groups include 8% multiracial, 2% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Tulare County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Houston Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.9%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Tulare County put median household income runs about $71,300, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Houston Elementary is one of 196 public schools in Tulare County (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students).

The closest other public school is Highland Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Houston Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Houston Elementary at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 31.6%.

Houston Elementary operates from an urban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Houston Elementary's enrollment has declined 12% since 2018, when it stood at 595 (now 523). Over the same period, the Hispanic share decreased from 92% to 88%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 29.8:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 today.

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