BERRY EL

BERRY EL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in HOUSTON, Texas, one of the schools within HOUSTON ISD. The school serves 745 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 44% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

HOUSTON ISD comprises 273 schools with combined enrollment of 176,727 students; BERRY EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, BERRY EL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%); the rest breaks down as 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 100% of students at BERRY EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Harris County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BERRY EL ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 30.2%; BERRY EL posts 47.6%, +17.4 points above that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), BERRY EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is GARCIA EL, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BERRY EL at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 32.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. BERRY EL's enrollment has decreased 9% since 2018, when it stood at 820 (now 745). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

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