HOUSTON EL

HOUSTON EL is a primary school of close-knit scale in DENISON, Texas, overseen by DENISON ISD, works with 255 students in grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 51% below the state mean of about 519.

Across the 10 schools in DENISON ISD (4,977 students total), HOUSTON EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, HOUSTON EL lists that the largest single group is White at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 31% Hispanic, 16% Black, 13% multiracial. By comparison, Grayson County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 78% of students at HOUSTON EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Grayson County's rate of about 53%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HOUSTON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.6%, the actual is 38.0%, a residual of -1.6 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Grayson County) shows that median household income runs about $72,182, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Grayson County runs 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,915 students), of which HOUSTON EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: PATHWAYS H S, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HOUSTON EL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HOUSTON EL has rose 7%, going from 238 students in 2018 to 255 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 61% to 38% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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