CHET BURCHETT EL

CHET BURCHETT EL, a sizable elementary campus in SPRING, Texas, run under SPRING ISD, serves 982 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 89% above the state mean of about 519.

SPRING ISD runs 42 schools in total, collectively educating 33,678 students. CHET BURCHETT EL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CHET BURCHETT EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 41% Black, 6% White, 3% multiracial. Compared to Harris County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting CHET BURCHETT EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 74% of students at CHET BURCHETT EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CHET BURCHETT EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.6%, the actual is 29.2%, a residual of -12.4 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which CHET BURCHETT EL is one.

RICKEY C BAILEY MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CHET BURCHETT EL at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 26.9%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. CHET BURCHETT EL's enrollment has climbed 22% since 2018, when it stood at 802 (now 982). The White share of enrollment edged down from 19% to 6% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.