CHANCELLOR EL

CHANCELLOR EL is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in HOUSTON, Texas, part of ALIEF ISD. The school hosts 707 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 36% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

CHANCELLOR EL is one of 46 schools operated by ALIEF ISD, a district that teaches 38,610 students overall.

On the student-mix side, CHANCELLOR EL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 27% Asian, 18% Black, 3% White.

On the resource side, CHANCELLOR EL reports 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting CHANCELLOR EL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CHANCELLOR EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.0%, the actual is 41.9%, a residual of +6.9 points.

In the area at large, census data for Harris County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), CHANCELLOR EL is one campus in the mix.

ALIEF LEARNING CTR (K-6) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CHANCELLOR EL. On composite proficiency, CHANCELLOR EL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 36.9%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 26%: 958 students in 2018 compared to 707 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 40% to 52% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

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