CODWELL EL

CODWELL EL is a K-5 school of cozy scale in HOUSTON, Texas, one of the schools within HOUSTON ISD, instructing 342 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so CODWELL EL sits 34% below that benchmark.

CODWELL EL is one of 273 schools operated by HOUSTON ISD, a district that enrolls 176,727 students overall.

On demographics, CODWELL EL logs that 85% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school records 13% Hispanic. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, CODWELL EL shows 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 95% of students at CODWELL EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Harris County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CODWELL EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.3%; this one delivers 28.0%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household earnings sit near $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), CODWELL EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is REVE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CODWELL EL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 23.4%.

CODWELL EL operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CODWELL EL has ticked down 24%, going from 449 students in 2018 to 342 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 91% to 85%. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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