BERNSHAUSEN EL

BERNSHAUSEN EL, a middle-of-the-pack primary school in KLEIN, Texas, overseen by KLEIN ISD, serves 695 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so BERNSHAUSEN EL sits 34% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 50 schools in KLEIN ISD (52,437 students total), BERNSHAUSEN EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, BERNSHAUSEN EL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 58% of enrollment; the rest looks like 22% White, 12% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting BERNSHAUSEN EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 62% 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 noticeably below Harris County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BERNSHAUSEN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.0%, the actual is 50.3%, a residual of +3.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), BERNSHAUSEN EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: TOMBALL STAR ACADEMY, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BERNSHAUSEN EL at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 66.5%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 23%: 905 students in 2018 compared to 695 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 28% to 22% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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