BONHAM EL

Set in HOUSTON, Texas, BONHAM EL is a big primary school, run under HOUSTON ISD. It instructs 940 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so BONHAM EL sits 81% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 273 schools in HOUSTON ISD (176,727 students total), BONHAM EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, BONHAM EL records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 14% Asian, 14% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Harris County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BONHAM EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 31.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.6%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household income runs about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which BONHAM EL is one.

SHARPSTOWN H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BONHAM EL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.5%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 3%: 974 students in 2018 compared to 940 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 1% to 14% across the same window.

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