GREENWOOD FOREST EL

Located at 12100 MISTY VLY, in KLEIN, Texas, GREENWOOD FOREST EL is a mid-tier elementary-level community that enrolls 557 students (grades K through 5), part of KLEIN ISD.

Within KLEIN ISD, which oversees 50 schools and 52,437 students, GREENWOOD FOREST EL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, GREENWOOD FOREST EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 53%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 34% Black, 5% White, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting GREENWOOD FOREST EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 74% of students at GREENWOOD FOREST EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, GREENWOOD FOREST EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.6%, the actual is 48.2%, a residual of +6.6 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), GREENWOOD FOREST EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: WUNDERLICH INT, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GREENWOOD FOREST EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GREENWOOD FOREST EL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 43.6%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. GREENWOOD FOREST EL's enrollment has shrank 24% since 2018, when it stood at 735 (now 557). Over the same period, the Black share climbed from 28% to 34%.

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