BUSH EL

BUSH EL is a primary school of medium-sized scale in HOUSTON, Texas, operated by HOUSTON ISD, educateing 703 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 35% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

HOUSTON ISD comprises 273 schools with combined enrollment of 176,727 students; BUSH EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, BUSH EL lists that the most-represented group is Asian (31%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 23% White, 21% Hispanic, 18% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 7% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 29% of students at BUSH EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BUSH EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.1%, the actual is 73.3%, a residual of +12.2 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Harris County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), BUSH EL is one campus in the mix.

WEST BRIAR MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BUSH EL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 53.2%.

BUSH EL operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 22%: 903 students in 2018 compared to 703 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share expanded from 9% to 18%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 today.

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