BROWNING EL

BROWNING EL is a K-5 school of cozy scale in HOUSTON, Texas, run under HOUSTON ISD, hosting 348 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 33% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

BROWNING EL is one of 273 schools operated by HOUSTON ISD, a district that teaches 176,727 students overall.

On the student-mix side, BROWNING EL reports that nearly all students (95%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, BROWNING EL has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 89% 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 higher than Harris County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BROWNING EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.1%; this one delivers 26.1%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Harris County shows median household earnings sit near $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which BROWNING EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: TRAVIS EL, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BROWNING EL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 48.1%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BROWNING EL has edged down 36%, going from 544 students in 2018 to 348 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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