CUMMINGS EL

CUMMINGS EL is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in HOUSTON, Texas, run under ALIEF ISD, works with 513 students in grades pre-K through 4.

ALIEF ISD comprises 46 schools with combined enrollment of 38,610 students; CUMMINGS EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, CUMMINGS EL records that 53% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 37% Black, 8% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 95% of students at CUMMINGS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CUMMINGS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 28.8%, a residual of -3.7 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which CUMMINGS EL is one.

The closest other public school is SMITH EL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CUMMINGS EL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.3%.

CUMMINGS EL operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CUMMINGS EL has decreased 10%, going from 573 students in 2018 to 513 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 37% to 53% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

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