ELIOT EL

Located at 6411 LAREDO ST, in HOUSTON, Texas, ELIOT EL is a mid-tier elementary school that instructs 464 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of HOUSTON ISD.

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

In terms of who attends, ELIOT EL records that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ELIOT EL sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 32.2%; actual is 46.7%, +14.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Harris County) records 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%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which ELIOT EL is one.

SCROGGINS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ELIOT EL. On composite proficiency, ELIOT EL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 36.1%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ELIOT EL has shrank 23%, going from 602 students in 2018 to 464 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.