GARRETT EL

GARRETT EL is one of the moderately sized elementary campuss in HOUSTON, Texas, overseen by SHELDON ISD, with 606 students on its rolls from grades 1 through 5.

Across the 14 schools in SHELDON ISD (10,946 students total), GARRETT EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GARRETT EL lists that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 33% Black, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, GARRETT EL has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting GARRETT EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 83% of students at GARRETT EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GARRETT EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.7%; this one delivers 32.5%.

Around the school, census data for Harris County shows 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%. GARRETT EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

Nearest neighbor: MICHAEL R NULL MIDDLE, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, GARRETT EL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 32.3%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 5%: 636 students in 2018 compared to 606 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

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