HOUSMAN EL

HOUSMAN EL operates as a mid-sized elementary school in HOUSTON, Texas, operated by SPRING BRANCH ISD. Current enrollment sits at 634 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 22% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

SPRING BRANCH ISD comprises 46 schools with combined enrollment of 33,793 students; HOUSMAN EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, HOUSMAN EL shows that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 7% White, 7% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Harris County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, HOUSMAN EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.4%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which HOUSMAN EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: TREASURE FOREST EL, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HOUSMAN EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 43.6%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 19%: 534 students in 2018 compared to 634 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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