H F MCNEILL EL

H F MCNEILL EL is a large elementary campus in RICHMOND, Texas, one of the schools within LAMAR CISD. The school educates 926 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 78% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

LAMAR CISD runs 49 schools in total, collectively educating 46,786 students. H F MCNEILL EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, H F MCNEILL EL shows that 32% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 26% Asian, 21% Hispanic, 17% White, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

In terms of school funding signals, H F MCNEILL EL shows 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting H F MCNEILL EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 38% of students at H F MCNEILL EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, H F MCNEILL EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.5%, the actual is 67.1%, a residual of +9.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Fort Bend County indicate median household earnings sit near $114,041, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Fort Bend County runs 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), of which H F MCNEILL EL is one.

The closest other public school is HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - KATY, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, H F MCNEILL EL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 66.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 6%: 871 students in 2018 compared to 926 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share rose from 20% to 26%.

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