ASHFORD EL

Located at 1815 SHANNON VLY DR, in HOUSTON, Texas, ASHFORD EL is a mid-sized elementary school that works with 582 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by HOUSTON ISD.

Within HOUSTON ISD, which oversees 273 schools and 176,727 students, ASHFORD EL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ASHFORD EL logs that the most-represented group is Black (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 40% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 5% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ASHFORD EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.7%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Harris County put 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), ASHFORD EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SHADOWBRIAR EL, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ASHFORD EL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 51.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. ASHFORD EL's enrollment has shrank 14% since 2018, when it stood at 679 (now 582). Over the same period, the White share fell from 12% to 5%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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