BLACK EL

BLACK EL is an elementary school of large scale in CYPRESS, Texas, run under CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD, hosting 1,125 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 117% above typical.

Within CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD, which oversees 92 schools and 117,927 students, BLACK EL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, BLACK EL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 42%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 31% White, 12% Black, 9% Asian, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BLACK EL has 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 47% 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 lower than Harris County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BLACK EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.2%, the actual is 51.0%, a residual of -2.2 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Harris County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which BLACK EL is one.

WILDWOOD EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BLACK EL. On composite proficiency, BLACK EL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 71.1%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BLACK EL has grew 8%, going from 1,045 students in 2018 to 1,125 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 48% to 31% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.