ART AND PAT GOFORTH EL

ART AND PAT GOFORTH EL is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in LEAGUE CITY, Texas, overseen by CLEAR CREEK ISD, with 765 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 47% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

CLEAR CREEK ISD comprises 46 schools with combined enrollment of 39,684 students; ART AND PAT GOFORTH EL is among them.

On demographics, ART AND PAT GOFORTH EL lists that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment; the rest looks like 21% Hispanic, 10% Black, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 25% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Galveston County's rate of about 57%.

After controlling for student poverty, ART AND PAT GOFORTH EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.1%, the actual is 58.7%, a residual of -4.4 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Galveston County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,105 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Galveston County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,767 students), of which ART AND PAT GOFORTH EL is one.

The closest other public school is LEAGUE CITY INT, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ART AND PAT GOFORTH EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ART AND PAT GOFORTH EL at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 59.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 14%: 890 students in 2018 compared to 765 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 27% to 21% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.