H C CARLESTON EL

H C CARLESTON EL operates as an average-sized elementary school in PEARLAND, Texas, operated by PEARLAND ISD. Current enrollment sits at 714 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 38% above the state mean of about 519.

PEARLAND ISD comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 20,862 students; H C CARLESTON EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, H C CARLESTON EL shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 61%. Beyond that, the school reports 22% Black, 11% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 32% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Brazoria County (around 50%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, H C CARLESTON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.6%, the actual is 38.8%, a residual of -5.8 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Brazoria County shows median household income runs about $97,993, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Brazoria County runs 115 public schools (combined enrollment of about 75,767 students), of which H C CARLESTON EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: ROGERS 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), H C CARLESTON EL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 61.8%.

H C CARLESTON EL operates from a suburban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at H C CARLESTON EL has fell 12%, going from 814 students in 2018 to 714 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 22% to 11% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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