BENAVIDEZ EL

BENAVIDEZ EL operates as a heavily attended K-5 school in HOUSTON, Texas, run under HOUSTON ISD. Current enrollment sits at 782 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 51% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

BENAVIDEZ EL is one of 273 schools operated by HOUSTON ISD, a district that educates 176,727 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BENAVIDEZ EL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 24% Asian, 5% Black, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, BENAVIDEZ EL shows 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BENAVIDEZ EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.4%; this one delivers 22.9%.

In the broader community, census data for Harris County shows median household income runs about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. BENAVIDEZ EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

Nearest neighbor: NEW NEIGHBOR CAMPUS, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BENAVIDEZ EL. On composite proficiency, BENAVIDEZ EL comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.8%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 20%: 981 students in 2018 compared to 782 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment rose from 10% to 24% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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