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Enrollment
949
Elementary
DISTRICT 906 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD·NCES 481611021033
Bang Elementary School
8900 RIO GRANDE, HOUSTON, TX 77064 · (281) 897-4760 · Harris County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL949 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
68 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
734 students
DISTRICT 62% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 98 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 141 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 154 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 134 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 167 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 139 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 116 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (141) is 22% larger than its 5th grade class (116).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
58.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +20.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
48.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +14.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 20 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 14 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 29.0% | 29.0% | 21.0% | 21.0% |
| Mathematics | 18.0% | 30.0% | 26.0% | 26.0% |
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 | 58.0% | 48.0% |
| 2024-25 | 60.0% | 47.0% |
| 2023-24 | 51.0% | 40.0% |
| 2022-23 | 38.0% | 38.0% |
| 2021-22 | 45.0% | 35.0% |
| 2020-21 | 38.0% | 34.0% |
% 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
46.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.7%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 Bang Elementary School
Bang Elementary School's state test result (46.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bang Elementary School this school | 949 | 77.3% | 46.3% |
| Matzke Elementary School HOUSTON | 1,026 | 77.5% | 40.0% |
| Brosnahan Elementary School KATY | 1,035 | 79.7% | 41.8% |
| Post Elementary School HOUSTON | 798 | 76.1% | 49.0% |
| Escondido Elementary School CONVERSE | 833 | 77.6% | 27.7% |
| Pershing Park Elementary School KILLEEN | 934 | 73.3% | 32.4% |
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 Bang Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Harris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.3% | #1,820 of 4,401 | #225 of 624 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #1,935 of 4,466 ▼ 29 | #265 of 625 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #1,607 of 4,466 ▼ 202 | #201 of 625 ▼ 40 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +15.0pp | #862 of 3,998 | #116 of 603 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 949 | #134 of 4,938 | #52 of 682 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #1,494 of 4,622 | #212 of 657 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.6% | #1,177 of 4,628 | #142 of 657 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.3% | #2,128 of 4,789 | #430 of 671 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.0% | #2,019 of 2,838 | #340 of 441 |
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
949
+50 (+6%) vs 2020
+20% since 1990-91, when it was 792
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 14.7:1
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 | 949 | 68 | 14.0:1 | 77% (734) |
| 2023-24 | 958 | 65 | 14.8:1 | 81% (779) |
| 2022-23 | 912 | 61.6 | 14.8:1 | 77% (701) |
| 2020-21 | 899 | 61 | 14.7:1 | 76% (681) |
| 2017-18 | 1,054 | 54 | 19.5:1 | 62% (654) |
| 2015-16 | 977 | 56 | 17.4:1 | 59% (574) |
| 2010-11 | 905 | 54 | 16.8:1 | 46% (419) |
| 2000-01 | 949 | 61 | 15.6:1 | 8% (73) |
| 1990-91 | 792 | 50 | 15.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bang Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (1,054 to 949); teachers up 26% (54 to 68).
About Bang Elementary School
Bang Elementary School is an elementary school located in HOUSTON, Texas, in Harris County. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 949 students. The average for elementary schools in Texas is about 519 students, so this school is 83% above average.
CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD has 117,927 students spread across 92 schools.
A majority of students at Bang Elementary School, 54%, are Hispanic. Beyond that, enrollment is 25% Black, 14% White, 4% multiracial, and 4% Asian. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 44%. By the diversity index, Bang Elementary School comes in at 63%.
Bang Elementary School's 68 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 14.0:1. That ratio is under the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 77%.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Bang Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Texas schools: 46.3% actual against 40.7% predicted.
Census Bureau estimates for Harris County show that median household income is about $74,983, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and about 13% of people live in poverty. A total of 1,205 public schools operate in Harris County, serving about 886,911 students.
The nearest public school is Cook Middle School, at about 0.3 miles. Bang Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 50.0%, higher than Bang Elementary School's 46.3%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Bang Elementary School went from 899 students to 949.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss science fairs, picture day, and bus routes at Bang Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD
- Bridgeland High SchoolHigh · 3,707 students
- Cypress Woods High SchoolHigh · 3,469 students
- Cypress Ranch High SchoolHigh · 3,463 students
- Jersey Village High SchoolHigh · 3,323 students
- Cypress Creek High SchoolHigh · 3,222 students
- Cy-Fair High SchoolHigh · 3,216 students
Other schools in HOUSTON
- Texas Connections Academy at HoustonCombined · 8,641 students
- North Shore Senior HighHigh · 4,284 students
- Elsik High SchoolHigh · 4,057 students
- Summer Creek High SchoolHigh · 3,972 students
- Hastings High SchoolHigh · 3,786 students
- C E King High SchoolHigh · 3,716 students
Nearby schools
- Cook Middle School0.3 mi · 1,375
- Gleason Elementary School0.9 mi · 940
- Emmott Elementary School1.5 mi · 583
- Willbern Elementary School1.5 mi · 831
- Cypress-Fairbanks J J Alternative Education Program1.6 mi · 6
- Jersey Village High School1.8 mi · 3,323
Frequently asked questions
About Bang Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Bang Elementary School?
Bang Elementary School enrolls approximately 949 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Bang Elementary School serve?
Bang Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bang Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bang Elementary School is approximately 14.0:1 (68 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Bang Elementary School?
Bang Elementary School reports a student body of 14% White, 54% Hispanic, 25% Black, 4% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Bang Elementary School?
Bang Elementary School is overseen by CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD in Harris County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.