DURKEE EL

DURKEE EL operates as a tight-knit elementary school in HOUSTON, Texas, part of HOUSTON ISD. Current enrollment sits at 439 students spanning grades K through 5.

Within HOUSTON ISD, which oversees 273 schools and 176,727 students, DURKEE EL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, DURKEE EL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). Other groups include 3% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, DURKEE EL has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 92% of students at DURKEE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, DURKEE EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.4%.

Across the wider county, Harris County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. DURKEE EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

FARIAS EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DURKEE EL comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.7%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DURKEE EL has declined 28%, going from 609 students in 2018 to 439 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 84% to 96%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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