FOERSTER EL

FOERSTER EL operates as a reasonably sized elementary-level community in HOUSTON, Texas, part of HOUSTON ISD. Current enrollment sits at 531 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

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

In terms of who attends, FOERSTER EL reports that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 38% Black. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, FOERSTER EL has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 99% of students at FOERSTER EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Harris County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, FOERSTER EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.7%; this one delivers 23.4%.

Across the wider county, census data for Harris County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which FOERSTER EL is one.

The closest other public school is KIPP MOSAIC PRI, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, FOERSTER EL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FOERSTER EL has contracted 29%, going from 743 students in 2018 to 531 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 28% to 60% over that span.

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