DERETCHIN EL

Set in THE WOODLANDS, Texas, DERETCHIN EL is a sprawling K-5 school, run under CONROE ISD. It educates 1,209 students across grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 133% larger than the state mean of about 519.

CONROE ISD runs 66 schools in total, collectively educating 72,914 students. DERETCHIN EL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, DERETCHIN EL reports that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 35% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 5% multiracial, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 67% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, DERETCHIN EL has 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 16% of students at DERETCHIN EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, DERETCHIN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.8%, the actual is 76.8%, a residual of +9.9 points.

In the surrounding community, Montgomery County reports that median household income runs about $97,701, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. DERETCHIN EL is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 134,595 students).

BEAR BRANCH INT is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DERETCHIN EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DERETCHIN EL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 66.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 27%: 949 students in 2018 compared to 1,209 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 57% to 40% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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