BRIARGROVE EL

Located at 6145 SAN FELIPE ST, in HOUSTON, Texas, BRIARGROVE EL is a heavily attended primary school that enrolls 871 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of HOUSTON ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 68% larger than the state mean of about 519.

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

Demographically, BRIARGROVE EL shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 23% Black, 21% White, 11% Asian, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Harris County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.4:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Harris County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BRIARGROVE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.3%, the actual is 42.1%, a residual of -7.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Harris County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 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 BRIARGROVE EL is one.

T H ROGERS SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BRIARGROVE EL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BRIARGROVE EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 53.8%.

BRIARGROVE EL operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 6%: 922 students in 2018 compared to 871 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 38% to 21% over that span.

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