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Enrollment
722
Elementary
DISTRICT 684 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KLEIN ISD·NCES 482574012603
Blackshear Elementary School
11211 LACEY RD, KLEIN, TX 77375 · (832) 375-7610 · Harris County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL722 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
392 students
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 67 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 84 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 102 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 118 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 132 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 131 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is 36% smaller than its 5th grade class (131).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
71.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +20.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
62.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +10.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 20 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 10 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 39.0% | 32.0% | 14.0% | 15.0% |
| Mathematics | 32.0% | 30.0% | 18.0% | 20.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 71.0% | 62.0% |
| 2024-25 | 67.0% | 58.0% |
| 2023-24 | 67.0% | 63.0% |
| 2022-23 | 56.0% | 56.0% |
| 2021-22 | 71.0% | 61.0% |
| 2020-21 | 51.0% | 52.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.5%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Blackshear Elementary School
Blackshear Elementary School's state test result (60.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackshear Elementary School this school | 722 | 54.3% | 60.5% |
| Wallace Elementary School DALLAS | 654 | 55.7% | 49.0% |
| Daffron Elementary School PLANO | 604 | 51.0% | 39.1% |
| Hillcrest Elementary School NEDERLAND | 717 | 62.1% | 65.8% |
| E A Lawhon Elementary School PEARLAND | 816 | 59.9% | 58.7% |
| Lowery Elementary School HOUSTON | 660 | 59.4% | 60.5% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Blackshear Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Harris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.5% | #745 of 4,401 | #80 of 624 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #821 of 4,466 ▲ 173 | #97 of 625 ▲ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #676 of 4,466 ▲ 234 | #74 of 625 ▲ 20 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +10.5pp | #1,398 of 3,998 | #218 of 603 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 722 | #781 of 4,938 | #210 of 682 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #1,874 of 4,622 | #259 of 657 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.9% | #976 of 4,628 | #120 of 657 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.3% | #3,392 of 4,789 | #545 of 671 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.7% | #474 of 2,838 | #103 of 441 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
722
-95 (-12%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 14.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 722 | 50.2 | 14.4:1 | 54% (392) |
| 2023-24 | 729 | 53.3 | 13.7:1 | 54% (396) |
| 2022-23 | 771 | 56.4 | 13.7:1 | 52% (401) |
| 2020-21 | 817 | 55 | 14.8:1 | 51% (420) |
| 2017-18 | 1,042 | 63.3 | 16.5:1 | 40% (420) |
| 2015-16 | 959 | 63 | 15.2:1 | 41% (393) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Blackshear Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (1,042 to 722); teachers down 21% (63.3 to 50.2).
About Blackshear Elementary School
A mid-sized elementary school in KLEIN, Texas, Blackshear Elementary School is part of KLEIN ISD. The school serves pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 722 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Texas enroll about 519 students on average.
Blackshear Elementary School falls under KLEIN ISD, which has 50 schools enrolling 52,437 students.
About 53% of the student body at Blackshear Elementary School is Hispanic. Enrollment also includes 20% White, 13% Black, 10% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Among people living in Harris County, the Hispanic share is about 44%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 65, compared with 70 nationally.
The school has 50.2 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 14.4 students per teacher. Elementary schools in Texas have an average ratio of 15.1:1. The school reported 54% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That rate is below the 70% average among public schools in Harris County.
Blackshear Elementary School is 9.9 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (60.5% versus 50.5%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Texas.
Harris County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $74,983 a year, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. Blackshear Elementary School shares Harris County with 1,204 other public schools.
A public school about 0.9 miles away, Kohrville Elementary School, is the closest to Blackshear Elementary School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Blackshear Elementary School ranks 7th on proficiency.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment fell by 12% across 4 years, from 817 in 2020-21 to 722 in 2024-25.
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Harris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
4,838,303
Census ACS
Median income
$74,983
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,205
886,911 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in KLEIN ISD
- Klein Cain High SchoolHigh · 3,922 students
- Klein Oak High SchoolHigh · 3,766 students
- Klein Forest High SchoolHigh · 3,418 students
- Klein High SchoolHigh · 3,366 students
- Klein Collins High SchoolHigh · 3,360 students
- Wunderlich Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 1,319 students
Other schools in KLEIN
- Klein Cain High SchoolHigh · 3,922 students
- Klein Oak High SchoolHigh · 3,766 students
- Klein Forest High SchoolHigh · 3,418 students
- Klein High SchoolHigh · 3,366 students
- Klein Collins High SchoolHigh · 3,360 students
- Wunderlich Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 1,319 students
Other Blackshear Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 2 states are named Blackshear Elementary. Blackshear Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- Blackshear Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 257 students
- Blackshear Elementary SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 214 students
- Blackshear Elementary SchoolBlackshear, GA · 820 students
Nearby schools
- Kohrville Elementary School0.9 mi · 671
- Hassler Elementary School1.3 mi · 625
- Ulrich Intermediate School1.4 mi · 1,178
- Willow Wood Junior High School1.4 mi · 884
- Klein Cain High School1.5 mi · 3,922
- Willow Creek Elementary School1.5 mi · 687
Frequently asked questions
About Blackshear Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Blackshear Elementary School?
Blackshear Elementary School enrolls approximately 722 students in grades PK-05.
Is Blackshear Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Blackshear Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Blackshear Elementary School have?
Blackshear Elementary School employs 50 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.4:1.
How diverse is Blackshear Elementary School?
Blackshear Elementary School reports a student body of 20% White, 53% Hispanic, 13% Black, 10% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Blackshear Elementary School?
Blackshear Elementary School is overseen by KLEIN ISD in Harris County.
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