GOLDEN ACRES EL

Set in PASADENA, Texas, GOLDEN ACRES EL is a low-enrollment primary school, one of the schools within PASADENA ISD. It serves 390 students across grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 25% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

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

On demographics, GOLDEN ACRES EL logs that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 9% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, GOLDEN ACRES EL has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting GOLDEN ACRES EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 87% of students at GOLDEN ACRES 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 somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, GOLDEN ACRES EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.7%; this one delivers 39.5%.

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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which GOLDEN ACRES EL is one.

THE SUMMIT (HIGH SCHOOL) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, GOLDEN ACRES EL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 41.2%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 16%: 462 students in 2018 compared to 390 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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