DE ZAVALA EL

DE ZAVALA EL is a compact elementary campus in HOUSTON, Texas, run under HOUSTON ISD. The school works with 246 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 53% below the state mean of about 519.

HOUSTON ISD runs 273 schools in total, collectively educating 176,727 students. DE ZAVALA EL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DE ZAVALA EL reports that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, DE ZAVALA EL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 32.2%; this one delivers 51.4%, a residual of +19.2 points.

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 roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which DE ZAVALA EL is one.

GALLEGOS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DE ZAVALA EL. On composite proficiency, DE ZAVALA EL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.8%.

DE ZAVALA EL operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 59%: 593 students in 2018 compared to 246 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.