CARAWAY EL

CARAWAY EL is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in HOUSTON, Texas, one of the schools within ALDINE ISD, serveing 553 students in grades 1 through 5.

ALDINE ISD comprises 76 schools with combined enrollment of 56,419 students; CARAWAY EL is among them.

In terms of who attends, CARAWAY EL lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%. Other groups include 33% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CARAWAY EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 34.9%; CARAWAY EL posts 11.3%, -23.6 points below that line.

Zooming out to the 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. CARAWAY EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

STOVALL EC/PK/K is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CARAWAY EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 42.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.