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Enrollment
886
Elementary
DISTRICT 607 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHANNELVIEW ISD·NCES 481359007310
B H Hamblen Elementary School
1019 DELL DALE ST, CHANNELVIEW, TX 77530 · (281) 457-8720 · Harris County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL886 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
749 students
DISTRICT 90% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 117 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 131 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 149 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 141 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 187 | 21% |
| Grade 5 | 161 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (117) is 27% smaller than its 5th grade class (161).
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 29% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
53.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +17.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
45.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +10.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 17 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 10 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 23.0% | 30.0% | 25.0% | 22.0% |
| Mathematics | 16.0% | 29.0% | 25.0% | 30.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 53.0% | 45.0% |
| 2024-25 | 59.0% | 54.0% |
| 2023-24 | 55.0% | 55.0% |
| 2022-23 | 57.0% | 61.0% |
| 2021-22 | 55.0% | 51.0% |
| 2020-21 | 36.0% | 35.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
49.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.6%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like B H Hamblen Elementary School
B H Hamblen Elementary School's state test result (49.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| B H Hamblen Elementary School this school | 886 | 84.5% | 49.5% |
| Austin Achieve Northeast Elementary School AUSTIN | 839 | 88.3% | 27.0% |
| Ralph Bunche Elementary School MIDLAND | 841 | 86.8% | 23.2% |
| Southeast Elementary School HOUSTON | 816 | 84.7% | 46.9% |
| Uplift Grand Prep PS GRAND PRAIRIE | 727 | 86.8% | 30.3% |
| Larkspur Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 849 | 88.1% | 27.1% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where B H Hamblen Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Harris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.5% | #1,475 of 4,401 | #171 of 624 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #2,253 of 4,466 ▼ 985 | #311 of 625 ▼ 164 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #2,121 of 4,466 ▼ 634 | #273 of 625 ▼ 101 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -10.0pp | #335 of 3,998 | #39 of 603 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 886 | #232 of 4,938 | #81 of 682 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.6:1 | #2,997 of 4,622 | #394 of 657 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.7% | #3,398 of 4,628 | #480 of 657 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.5% | #1,596 of 4,789 | #361 of 671 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.9% | #1,122 of 1,307 | #126 of 148 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
886
-68 (-7%) vs 2020
-17% since 2000-01, when it was 1,068
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
was 18.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 886 | 56.7 | 15.6:1 | 85% (749) |
| 2023-24 | 901 | 57.4 | 15.7:1 | 84% (761) |
| 2022-23 | 954 | 59 | 16.2:1 | 83% (793) |
| 2020-21 | 954 | 52 | 18.4:1 | 81% (775) |
| 2017-18 | 861 | 48.8 | 17.6:1 | 76% (658) |
| 2015-16 | 787 | 49 | 16.1:1 | 78% (614) |
| 2010-11 | 918 | 59 | 15.6:1 | 82% (750) |
| 2000-01 | 1,068 | 54 | 19.8:1 | 62% (667) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for B H Hamblen Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (861 to 886); teachers up 16% (48.8 to 56.7).
About B H Hamblen Elementary School
B H Hamblen Elementary School sits in CHANNELVIEW, Texas, and is classified as an elementary school. It teaches 886 students in kindergarten through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Texas enroll about 519 students on average.
CHANNELVIEW ISD is made up of 12 schools with 9,335 students in all.
At B H Hamblen Elementary School, 82% of students are Hispanic. It is also 13% Black and 3% White. For comparison, the population of Harris County is roughly 44% Hispanic. The diversity index for B H Hamblen Elementary School is 31%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.6:1. The school has 56.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. The ratio is within a point of the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. Federal data show 85% of students (749) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Harris County, the average eligibility rate is 70%.
The model predicts 37.6% for a school in Texas with B H Hamblen Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. B H Hamblen Elementary School posts 49.5%.
In Harris County, home to about 4,838,303 people, the median household earns about $74,983 a year, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. B H Hamblen Elementary School shares Harris County with 1,204 other public schools.
B H Hamblen Elementary School is about 0.2 miles from McMullan Elementary School, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 6 nearby schools with scores, B H Hamblen Elementary School ranks 1st on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 886, from 954 in 2020-21. The school's ratio dropped from 18.4:1 to 15.6:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Harris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
4,838,303
Census ACS
Median income
$74,983
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,205
886,911 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CHANNELVIEW ISD
- Channelview High SchoolHigh · 2,917 students
- Alice Johnson Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,112 students
- Aguirre Junior High SchoolMiddle · 933 students
- McGhee Elementary SchoolElementary · 770 students
- De Zavala Elementary SchoolElementary · 634 students
- Harvey S Brown Elementary SchoolElementary · 569 students
Other schools in CHANNELVIEW
- Channelview High SchoolHigh · 2,917 students
- Alice Johnson Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,112 students
- McGhee Elementary SchoolElementary · 770 students
- De Zavala Elementary SchoolElementary · 634 students
- Crenshaw Elementary SchoolElementary · 482 students
- McMullan Elementary SchoolElementary · 482 students
Nearby schools
- McMullan Elementary School0.2 mi · 482
- De Zavala Elementary School0.3 mi · 634
- Alice Johnson Junior High School0.8 mi · 1,112
- Early Childhood Center1.0 mi · 427
- McGhee Elementary School1.0 mi · 770
- Endeavor HS-Joe Frank Campbell Learning Center1.0 mi · 98
Frequently asked questions
About B H Hamblen Elementary SchoolHow large is B H Hamblen Elementary School?
B H Hamblen Elementary School enrolls approximately 886 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does B H Hamblen Elementary School serve?
B H Hamblen Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at B H Hamblen Elementary School?
Approximately 15.6:1 students per teacher at B H Hamblen Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at B H Hamblen Elementary School?
At B H Hamblen Elementary School, the student body is approximately 3% White, 82% Hispanic, 13% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is B H Hamblen Elementary School in?
B H Hamblen Elementary School is part of CHANNELVIEW ISD.
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