GARDENS EL

As a small elementary campus in PASADENA, Texas, GARDENS EL enrolls 382 students from grades pre-K through 4, part of PASADENA ISD. That puts it 26% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Across the 67 schools in PASADENA ISD (46,491 students total), GARDENS EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, GARDENS EL records that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 6% White, 4% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, GARDENS EL has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 92% of students at GARDENS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GARDENS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.6%, the actual is 29.7%, a residual of -4.0 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Harris County) logs that median household income runs about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which GARDENS EL is one.

The closest other public school is JACKSON INT, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GARDENS EL at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 39.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 47%: 724 students in 2018 compared to 382 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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