BRISCOE EL

Located at 321 FOREST HILL, in HOUSTON, Texas, BRISCOE EL is a micro-enrollment elementary school that hosts 177 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by HOUSTON ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so BRISCOE EL sits 66% leaner than that benchmark.

Within HOUSTON ISD, which oversees 273 schools and 176,727 students, BRISCOE EL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, BRISCOE EL logs that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BRISCOE EL has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Harris County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BRISCOE EL ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 33.2%; BRISCOE EL posts 48.8%, +15.6 points above that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household income runs about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), BRISCOE EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is GALLEGOS EL, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BRISCOE EL at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 48.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 48%: 339 students in 2018 compared to 177 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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