DR SHIRLEY J WILLIAMSON EL

DR SHIRLEY J WILLIAMSON EL operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in HOUSTON, Texas, part of GALENA PARK ISD. Current enrollment sits at 621 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

GALENA PARK ISD runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 20,862 students. DR SHIRLEY J WILLIAMSON EL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, DR SHIRLEY J WILLIAMSON EL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 43% Black, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, DR SHIRLEY J WILLIAMSON EL lists 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DR SHIRLEY J WILLIAMSON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.8%, the actual is 40.2%, a residual of +3.4 points.

Around the school, Harris County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. DR SHIRLEY J WILLIAMSON EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

Nearest neighbor: COBB 6TH GRADE CAMPUS, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DR SHIRLEY J WILLIAMSON EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 51.3%.

DR SHIRLEY J WILLIAMSON EL operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. DR SHIRLEY J WILLIAMSON EL's enrollment has decreased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 688 (now 621). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 47% to 51%. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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