BURNETT EL

BURNETT EL operates as a reasonably sized primary school in HOUSTON, Texas, operated by PASADENA ISD. Current enrollment sits at 534 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.

PASADENA ISD comprises 67 schools with combined enrollment of 46,491 students; BURNETT EL is among them.

Demographically, BURNETT EL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 18% Black, 7% Asian, 6% White. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Harris County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BURNETT EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.8%; this one delivers 32.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Harris County) records that median household income runs about $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which BURNETT EL is one.

CLEAR HORIZONS EARLY COLLEGE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BURNETT EL. On composite proficiency, BURNETT EL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.6%.

BURNETT EL operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 10%: 484 students in 2018 compared to 534 in 2025.

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