DE ZAVALA EL

DE ZAVALA EL is a primary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in CHANNELVIEW, Texas, operated by CHANNELVIEW ISD, instructing 634 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 22% bigger than typical.

CHANNELVIEW ISD comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 9,335 students; DE ZAVALA EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, DE ZAVALA EL logs that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 5% White, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Harris County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DE ZAVALA EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.7%, the actual is 32.0%, a residual of -0.7 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Harris County) shows that median household income runs about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), DE ZAVALA EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is B H HAMBLEN EL, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DE ZAVALA EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 38.3%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 11%: 573 students in 2018 compared to 634 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 85% to 90% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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