DREW ACADEMY

Located at 1910 W LITTLE YORK RD, in HOUSTON, Texas, DREW ACADEMY is a modestly sized middle school that serves 363 students (grades 7 through 8), one of the schools within ALDINE ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so DREW ACADEMY sits 44% leaner than that benchmark.

Within ALDINE ISD, which oversees 76 schools and 56,419 students, DREW ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, DREW ACADEMY lists that 54% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 43% Hispanic. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.2:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 85% of students at DREW ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, DREW ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.7%, the actual is 24.9%, a residual of -11.8 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household earnings sit near $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. DREW ACADEMY is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

Nearest neighbor: CARVER H S FOR APPLIED TECH/ENGINEERING/ARTS, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DREW ACADEMY comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 29.4%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 38%: 583 students in 2018 compared to 363 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.