ALMEDA EL

As a mid-tier K-5 school in HOUSTON, Texas, ALMEDA EL educates 707 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under HOUSTON ISD. That puts it 36% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

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

On the student-mix side, ALMEDA EL records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 71%. The remainder reads as 26% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, ALMEDA EL has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 95% of students at ALMEDA EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Harris County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, ALMEDA EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.2%; this one delivers 36.0%.

In the area at large, Harris County reports that median household income runs about $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), ALMEDA EL is one campus in the mix.

PETERSEN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ALMEDA EL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ALMEDA EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 51.1%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ALMEDA EL has declined 17%, going from 852 students in 2018 to 707 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment expanded from 19% to 26% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

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