GARDEN VILLAS EL

GARDEN VILLAS EL is an elementary campus of low-enrollment scale in HOUSTON, Texas, overseen by HOUSTON ISD, caters to 363 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 30% below the state mean of about 519.

HOUSTON ISD runs 273 schools in total, collectively educating 176,727 students. GARDEN VILLAS EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, GARDEN VILLAS EL logs that 73% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 22% Black, 4% White. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, GARDEN VILLAS EL logs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Harris County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, GARDEN VILLAS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.3%, the actual is 30.6%, a residual of -3.7 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Harris County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which GARDEN VILLAS EL is one.

The closest other public school is MOUNT CARMEL ACADEMY, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GARDEN VILLAS EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 39.5%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GARDEN VILLAS EL has decreased 54%, going from 786 students in 2018 to 363 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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