ATHERTON EL

ATHERTON EL operates as an average-sized elementary campus in HOUSTON, Texas, run under HOUSTON ISD. Current enrollment sits at 450 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

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

Looking at the student body, ATHERTON EL lists that Black students make up the majority at 75%. Other groups include 22% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, ATHERTON EL has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.5:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 95% 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 north of Harris County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, ATHERTON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 28.3%, a residual of -4.2 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Harris County put the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. ATHERTON EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

Nearest neighbor: DOGAN EL, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ATHERTON EL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.5%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 23%: 585 students in 2018 compared to 450 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 82% to 75% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.