BRILL EL

BRILL EL is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in KLEIN, Texas, one of the schools within KLEIN ISD, with 653 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 26% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

KLEIN ISD comprises 50 schools with combined enrollment of 52,437 students; BRILL EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BRILL EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 30% White, 14% Black, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BRILL EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.2%, the actual is 50.7%, a residual of -6.5 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Harris County shows median household income runs about $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), BRILL EL is one campus in the mix.

KRAHN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BRILL EL at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 54.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BRILL EL has edged down 14%, going from 758 students in 2018 to 653 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 15% to 7% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for BRILL EL typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.