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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at HOUSTON EL this year?
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Enrollment
537
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DENTON ISD·NCES 481674005696
Houston Elementary School
3100 TEASLEY, DENTON, TX 76205 · (940) 369-2900 · Denton County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL537 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
238 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 36 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 84 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (87).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
63.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +23.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
50.0%
TX avg 45.3% . -6.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 23 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 6 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 41.0% | 22.0% | 21.0% | 16.0% |
| Mathematics | 24.0% | 26.0% | 21.0% | 29.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 63.0% | 50.0% |
| 2024-25 | 63.0% | 46.0% |
| 2023-24 | 60.0% | 50.0% |
| 2022-23 | 62.0% | 62.0% |
| 2021-22 | 82.0% | 68.0% |
| 2020-21 | 40.0% | 56.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
50.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.8%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Houston Elementary School
Houston Elementary School's state test result (50.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Elementary School this school | 537 | 44.3% | 50.0% |
| Gene M Reed Elementary School ALLEN | 486 | 43.2% | 46.7% |
| Spring Garden Elementary School BEDFORD | 599 | 43.4% | 58.5% |
| Corinth Elementary School CORINTH | 537 | 41.0% | 37.8% |
| Armand Bayou Elementary School HOUSTON | 518 | 45.4% | 45.4% |
| J Lyndal Hughes Elementary School ROANOKE | 672 | 42.1% | 55.4% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Houston Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Denton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,435 of 4,401 | #72 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,743 of 4,466 ▲ 266 | #69 of 138 ▲ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #1,165 of 4,466 ▲ 16 | #70 of 138 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -5.5pp | #630 of 3,998 | #20 of 129 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 537 | #2,155 of 4,938 | #85 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #917 of 4,622 | #43 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.9% | #528 of 4,628 | #44 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.3% | #3,794 of 4,789 | #63 of 143 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.0% | #2,215 of 2,838 | #53 of 69 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
537
+7 (+1%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 605
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 11.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 537 | 40.8 | 13.2:1 | 44% (238) |
| 2023-24 | 527 | 41.2 | 12.8:1 | 44% (234) |
| 2022-23 | 502 | 41.4 | 12.1:1 | 41% (208) |
| 2020-21 | 530 | 45 | 11.8:1 | 39% (205) |
| 2017-18 | 584 | 42.6 | 13.7:1 | 32% (185) |
| 2015-16 | 574 | 40 | 14.3:1 | 33% (188) |
| 2010-11 | 643 | 43 | 14.9:1 | 27% (171) |
| 2000-01 | 756 | 45 | 16.8:1 | 21% (156) |
| 1990-91 | 605 | 34 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Houston Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (584 to 537); teachers down 4% (42.6 to 40.8).
About Houston Elementary School
Houston Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school with an address in DENTON, Texas. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 537 students.
DENTON ISD has a total of 46 schools and 33,329 students, Houston Elementary School among them.
White students make up 46% of enrollment at Houston Elementary School, the largest share of any group. Other groups make up 23% Hispanic, 16% Black, 7% Asian, and 7% multiracial. Denton County as a whole is about 57% White, so the school's share is lower. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 70%.
On staff are 40.8 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.2:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Texas average 15.1:1. Houston Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 44%. Public schools in Denton County average 35%.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Houston Elementary School is 54.8%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 50.0%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Denton County show that median household income comes to about $111,498, roughly 49% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Denton County counts 267 public schools with about 175,222 students.
Houston Elementary School is about 1.1 miles from Nelson Elementary School, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Houston Elementary School is 5th of 8 on proficiency.
Federal data place Houston Elementary School in the City: Mid-size locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 530 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 537. Its ratio of students to teachers was 11.8:1 in 2020-21, and 13.2:1 in 2024-25.
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Denton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
979,561
Census ACS
Median income
$111,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
267
175,222 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in DENTON ISD
- Ray Braswell High SchoolHigh · 2,812 students
- Guyer High SchoolHigh · 2,577 students
- Denton High SchoolHigh · 2,083 students
- Ryan High SchoolHigh · 2,051 students
- Strickland Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
- Crownover Middle SchoolMiddle · 891 students
Other schools in DENTON
- Guyer High SchoolHigh · 2,577 students
- Denton High SchoolHigh · 2,083 students
- Ryan High SchoolHigh · 2,051 students
- Strickland Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
- Calhoun Middle SchoolMiddle · 852 students
- Nette ShultzElementary · 748 students
Other Houston Elementary schools
13 other US public schools in 5 states are named Houston Elementary. Houston Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 14.
- Houston Elementary SchoolCONROE, TX · 741 students
- Houston Elementary SchoolPORT ARTHUR, TX · 689 students
- Houston Elementary SchoolLANCASTER, TX · 613 students
- Houston Elementary SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 496 students
- Houston Elementary SchoolHARLINGEN, TX · 420 students
Nearby schools
- Nelson Elementary School1.1 mi · 527
- McMath Middle School1.2 mi · 644
- Ryan Elementary School1.5 mi · 551
- Denton Classical Academy1.9 mi · 190
- McNair Elementary School2.0 mi · 599
- Borman Elementary School2.0 mi · 523
Frequently asked questions
About Houston Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Houston Elementary School?
Houston Elementary School enrolls approximately 537 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Houston Elementary School serve?
Houston Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Houston Elementary School?
Approximately 13.2:1 students per teacher at Houston Elementary School.
How diverse is Houston Elementary School?
Houston Elementary School reports a student body of 46% White, 23% Hispanic, 16% Black, 7% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Houston Elementary School in?
Houston Elementary School is part of DENTON ISD.
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