HOUSTON EL

HOUSTON EL is a tight-knit primary school in HARLINGEN, Texas, operated by HARLINGEN CISD. The school works with 420 students in grades pre-K through 5.

HARLINGEN CISD comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 17,506 students; HOUSTON EL is among them.

In terms of who attends, HOUSTON EL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (97%). Other groups include 2% White.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, HOUSTON EL has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, HOUSTON EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.6%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Cameron County put the typical household earns roughly $52,601 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 21%. In all, Cameron County runs 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), of which HOUSTON EL is one.

COAKLEY MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HOUSTON EL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.3%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HOUSTON EL has shrank 9%, going from 462 students in 2018 to 420 in 2025.

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