HOUSTON ELEM.

HOUSTON ELEM., a middle-of-the-pack primary school in HOUSTON, Missouri, overseen by HOUSTON R-I, serves 443 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so HOUSTON ELEM. sits 41% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in HOUSTON R-I (1,040 students total), HOUSTON ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, HOUSTON ELEM. records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). Other groups include 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Texas County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, HOUSTON ELEM. has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 100% of students at HOUSTON ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Texas County (around 89%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HOUSTON ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 59.5%, a residual of +10.1 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Texas County indicate median household income runs about $50,036, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. HOUSTON ELEM. is one of 16 public schools in Texas County (combined enrollment of about 3,571 students).

The closest other public school is HOUSTON HIGH, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around HOUSTON ELEM.. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HOUSTON ELEM. at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 45.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HOUSTON ELEM. has shrank 3%, going from 459 students in 2018 to 443 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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