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What's one thing BUFFALO CREEK EL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
741
Elementary
DISTRICT 547 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPRING BRANCH ISD·NCES 484110007647
Buffalo Creek Elementary School
2801 BLALOCK RD, HOUSTON, TX 77080 · (713) 251-5300 · Harris County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL741 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% of Texas public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
718 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 1 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 113 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 104 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 124 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 132 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 112 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 155 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (113) is 27% smaller than its 5th grade class (155).
Student demographics
24%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
33.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +5.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
27.0%
TX avg 45.3% . -7.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 5 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 12.0% | 21.0% | 27.0% | 40.0% |
| Mathematics | 8.0% | 19.0% | 31.0% | 42.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 33.0% | 27.0% |
| 2024-25 | 27.0% | 28.0% |
| 2023-24 | 37.0% | 41.0% |
| 2022-23 | 36.0% | 51.0% |
| 2021-22 | 45.0% | 42.0% |
| 2020-21 | 28.0% | 34.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
30.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.3%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Buffalo Creek Elementary School
Buffalo Creek Elementary School's state test result (30.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Creek Elementary School this school | 741 | 96.9% | 30.6% |
| Risd Academy DALLAS | 731 | 96.2% | 11.4% |
| Dover Elementary School RICHARDSON | 698 | 96.6% | 24.0% |
| David Crockett Academy SAN ANTONIO | 717 | 96.4% | 17.7% |
| Jose 'joe' May Elementary School DALLAS | 746 | 98.3% | 21.5% |
| Smith Elementary School HOUSTON | 730 | 96.8% | 34.4% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Buffalo Creek Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Harris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.6% | #3,600 of 4,401 | #525 of 624 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #4,123 of 4,466 ▼ 191 | #602 of 625 ▼ 30 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #4,186 of 4,466 ▲ 109 | #598 of 625 ▲ 11 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -13.5pp | #203 of 3,998 | #20 of 603 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 741 | #681 of 4,938 | #192 of 682 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #1,522 of 4,622 | #215 of 657 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 23.8% | #3,642 of 4,628 | #528 of 657 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.9% | #290 of 4,789 | #84 of 671 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +34.2% | #212 of 1,307 | #18 of 148 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
741
+303 (+69%) vs 2020
+15% since 2000-01, when it was 642
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 14.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 741 | 53 | 14.0:1 | 97% (718) |
| 2023-24 | 412 | 29.9 | 13.8:1 | 95% (392) |
| 2022-23 | 441 | 33.4 | 13.2:1 | 93% (411) |
| 2020-21 | 438 | 31 | 14.1:1 | 93% (407) |
| 2017-18 | 552 | 38 | 14.5:1 | 93% (515) |
| 2015-16 | 619 | 42 | 14.7:1 | 88% (542) |
| 2010-11 | 679 | 50 | 13.6:1 | 92% (625) |
| 2000-01 | 642 | 44 | 14.6:1 | 86% (551) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Buffalo Creek Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 34% (552 to 741); teachers up 39% (38 to 53).
About Buffalo Creek Elementary School
Buffalo Creek Elementary School is classified as an elementary school. It is located in HOUSTON, Texas. The school serves 741 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. The average among elementary schools in Texas is roughly 519 students; this school is 43% bigger than that.
Buffalo Creek Elementary School falls under SPRING BRANCH ISD, which has 46 schools enrolling 33,793 students.
Buffalo Creek Elementary School's enrollment is 87% Hispanic. The next largest groups are 5% Black and 4% White. The school's Hispanic share is 43 points above the 44% share among Harris County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 24% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 14.0:1 comes from the school's 53 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. The lunch program counts 97% of students at Buffalo Creek Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The average for public schools in Harris County is 70%.
Buffalo Creek Elementary School is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 19% of Texas public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Buffalo Creek Elementary School would be expected to post about 32.3%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 30.6%.
Census Bureau estimates for Harris County show that the median household income is $74,983, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 13%. There are 1,205 public schools in Harris County, enrolling about 886,911 students in all.
The closest other public school is Northbrook High School, about 0.5 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Buffalo Creek Elementary School ranks 7th on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Buffalo Creek Elementary School reported 438 students in 2020-21 and 741 in 2024-25. Changes that large sometimes follow a school adding or dropping grades, so the two figures may not cover the same grades.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Harris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
4,838,303
Census ACS
Median income
$74,983
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,205
886,911 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SPRING BRANCH ISD
- Memorial High SchoolHigh · 2,636 students
- Northbrook High SchoolHigh · 2,398 students
- Stratford High SchoolHigh · 2,394 students
- Spring Woods High SchoolHigh · 2,020 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,236 students
- Spring Branch Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,137 students
Other schools in HOUSTON
- Texas Connections Academy at HoustonCombined · 8,641 students
- North Shore Senior HighHigh · 4,284 students
- Elsik High SchoolHigh · 4,057 students
- Summer Creek High SchoolHigh · 3,972 students
- Hastings High SchoolHigh · 3,786 students
- C E King High SchoolHigh · 3,716 students
Nearby schools
- Northbrook High School0.5 mi · 2,398
- Spring Shadows Elementary School0.6 mi · 532
- Northbrook Middle School0.8 mi · 508
- Edgewood Elementary School0.9 mi · 503
- Spring Woods Middle School1.1 mi · 778
- Hollibrook Elementary School1.1 mi · 636
Frequently asked questions
About Buffalo Creek Elementary SchoolHow large is Buffalo Creek Elementary School?
Buffalo Creek Elementary School enrolls approximately 741 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Buffalo Creek Elementary School serve?
Buffalo Creek Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Buffalo Creek Elementary School?
Approximately 14.0:1 students per teacher at Buffalo Creek Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Buffalo Creek Elementary School?
Student demographics at Buffalo Creek Elementary School are roughly 4% White, 87% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Buffalo Creek Elementary School in?
Buffalo Creek Elementary School is part of SPRING BRANCH ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.