H M CARROLL EL

Set in HOUSTON, Texas, H M CARROLL EL is a mid-sized elementary campus, one of the schools within SHELDON ISD. It works with 536 students across grades 1 through 5.

Across the 14 schools in SHELDON ISD (10,946 students total), H M CARROLL EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, H M CARROLL EL logs that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 29% Black. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, H M CARROLL EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.4%; this one delivers 37.6%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Harris County) records that median household income runs about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. H M CARROLL EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

The closest other public school is SHELDON LAKE EL, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, H M CARROLL EL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 34%: 807 students in 2018 compared to 536 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 20% to 29% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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