GENOA EL

GENOA EL is a moderately sized elementary school in HOUSTON, Texas, part of PASADENA ISD. The school works with 535 students in grades pre-K through 4.

PASADENA ISD comprises 67 schools with combined enrollment of 46,491 students; GENOA EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GENOA EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 11% Black, 6% Asian, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, GENOA EL has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting GENOA EL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Harris County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, GENOA EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.0%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Harris County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 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 GENOA EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: FRED ROBERTS MIDDLE, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GENOA EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 46.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 27%: 728 students in 2018 compared to 535 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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