GOLFCREST EL

GOLFCREST EL is an elementary-level community of intimate scale in HOUSTON, Texas, overseen by HOUSTON ISD, hosting 372 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 28% below typical.

Within HOUSTON ISD, which oversees 273 schools and 176,727 students, GOLFCREST EL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, GOLFCREST EL records that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 7% Black. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting GOLFCREST EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, GOLFCREST EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.6%, the actual is 44.9%, a residual of +13.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Harris County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 GOLFCREST EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: HOUSTON GATEWAY ACADEMY, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GOLFCREST EL. On composite proficiency, GOLFCREST EL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.3%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. GOLFCREST EL's enrollment has fell 43% since 2018, when it stood at 648 (now 372). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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