BUSH EL

BUSH EL is an elementary campus of substantial scale in HOUSTON, Texas, part of ALIEF ISD, works with 780 students in grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 50% above the state mean of about 519.

ALIEF ISD runs 46 schools in total, collectively educating 38,610 students. BUSH EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, BUSH EL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%). Beyond that, the school records 8% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, BUSH EL shows 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Harris County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, BUSH EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.4%; this one delivers 27.3%.

In the area at large, census data for Harris County shows median household income runs about $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which BUSH EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: COLLINS EL, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BUSH EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.0%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. BUSH EL's enrollment has fell 11% since 2018, when it stood at 876 (now 780). Hispanic enrollment moved from 76% to 87% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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