HORN EL

HORN EL is a primary school of mid-tier scale in BELLAIRE, Texas, one of the schools within HOUSTON ISD, works with 750 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 45% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

HOUSTON ISD comprises 273 schools with combined enrollment of 176,727 students; HORN EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, HORN EL shows that 33% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 31% White, 17% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 9% Black. The wider county runs roughly 7% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 15% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, HORN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.1%, the actual is 77.3%, a residual of +10.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), HORN EL is one campus in the mix.

BELLAIRE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HORN EL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 56.2%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HORN EL has fell 12%, going from 857 students in 2018 to 750 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 42% to 31%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 today.

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