ALCOTT EL

Set in HOUSTON, Texas, ALCOTT EL is a rural-scale K-5 school, operated by HOUSTON ISD. It instructs 202 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 61% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

HOUSTON ISD runs 273 schools in total, collectively educating 176,727 students. ALCOTT EL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ALCOTT EL lists that the largest single group is Black, at 69% of enrollment; the rest reads as 28% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, ALCOTT EL has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ALCOTT EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.1%; this one delivers 40.5%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), ALCOTT EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: MADING EL, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ALCOTT EL. On composite proficiency, ALCOTT EL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 35.1%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. ALCOTT EL's enrollment has declined 25% since 2018, when it stood at 270 (now 202).

On the community side, members of the ALCOTT EL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.