C E KING H S

C E KING H S is one of the sizable senior highs in HOUSTON, Texas, operated by SHELDON ISD, with 3,716 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so C E KING H S sits 367% bigger than that benchmark.

SHELDON ISD runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 10,946 students. C E KING H S is one of those campuses.

Demographically, C E KING H S logs that 64% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 30% Black, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 211 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, C E KING H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.1%, the actual is 39.4%, a residual of -0.7 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 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 C E KING H S is one.

The closest other public school is SHELDON LAKE EL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, C E KING H S comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.1%.

C E KING H S operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at C E KING H S has ticked up 57%, going from 2,373 students in 2018 to 3,716 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked up from 24% to 30% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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