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CROSBY EL
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CROSBY EL
CROSBY EL operates as an average-sized primary school in CROSBY, Texas, operated by CROSBY ISD. Current enrollment sits at 671 students spanning grades 1 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 29% larger than typical.
CROSBY ISD comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 7,046 students; CROSBY EL is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, CROSBY EL reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 35% White, 13% Black, 5% multiracial. Compared to Harris County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting CROSBY EL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Harris County's rate of about 70%.
After controlling for student poverty, CROSBY EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.9%; this one delivers 37.9%.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate 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%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which CROSBY EL is one.
The closest other public school is CROSBY CROSSROADS ACADEMY, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CROSBY EL comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.2%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 662 students in 2018 compared to 671 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 61% to 35% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.
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