BIRNHAM WOODS EL

As a roomy elementary-level community in SPRING, Texas, BIRNHAM WOODS EL serves 845 students from grades pre-K through 4, overseen by CONROE ISD. That puts it 63% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Within CONROE ISD, which oversees 66 schools and 72,914 students, BIRNHAM WOODS EL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, BIRNHAM WOODS EL logs that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 22% Hispanic, 11% Black, 8% Asian, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, BIRNHAM WOODS EL records 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Montgomery County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BIRNHAM WOODS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.2%, the actual is 61.5%, a residual of -4.7 points.

In the surrounding community, Montgomery County reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,701 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. BIRNHAM WOODS EL is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 134,595 students).

The closest other public school is BRADLEY EL, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BIRNHAM WOODS EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BIRNHAM WOODS EL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 63.6%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 14%: 984 students in 2018 compared to 845 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 60% to 52%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, members of the BIRNHAM WOODS EL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.