FORD EL

FORD EL is a heavily attended primary school in SPRING, Texas, overseen by CONROE ISD. The school teaches 857 students in grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 65% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Across the 66 schools in CONROE ISD (72,914 students total), FORD EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, FORD EL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 21% Black, 19% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, FORD EL has 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Montgomery County (around 48%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, FORD EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.6%, the actual is 45.7%, a residual of +3.1 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put the typical household earns roughly $97,701 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Montgomery County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,595 students), of which FORD EL is one.

VOGEL INT is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FORD EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FORD EL at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 58.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 3%: 833 students in 2018 compared to 857 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 35% to 19% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.