BUFFALO CREEK EL

BUFFALO CREEK EL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in HOUSTON, Texas, run under SPRING BRANCH ISD. The school teaches 741 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 43% larger than the state mean of about 519.

Within SPRING BRANCH ISD, which oversees 46 schools and 33,793 students, BUFFALO CREEK EL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, BUFFALO CREEK EL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%). The remainder looks like 5% Black, 4% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BUFFALO CREEK EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.6%, the actual is 36.2%, a residual of +4.6 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), BUFFALO CREEK EL is one campus in the mix.

NORTHBROOK H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BUFFALO CREEK EL. On composite proficiency, BUFFALO CREEK EL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BUFFALO CREEK EL has grew 34%, going from 552 students in 2018 to 741 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 91% to 87% across the same window.

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