BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE CHARTER SCHOOL

BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE CHARTER SCHOOL is one of the mid-tier elementary-level communitys in HOUSTON, Texas, operated by BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE CHARTER SCHOOL, with 558 students on its rolls from grades K through 8.

Operationally, BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE CHARTER SCHOOL answers to BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE CHARTER SCHOOL, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE CHARTER SCHOOL records that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 78% of students at BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE CHARTER SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE CHARTER SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.2%.

Zooming out to the county, Harris County reports that median household income runs about $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is HARTSFIELD EL, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE CHARTER SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE CHARTER SCHOOL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.7%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 25%: 445 students in 2018 compared to 558 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE CHARTER SCHOOL typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.