HOUSTON EL

HOUSTON EL is one of the moderately sized primary schools in PORT ARTHUR, Texas, run under PORT ARTHUR ISD, with 689 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 33% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

PORT ARTHUR ISD comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 8,041 students; HOUSTON EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, HOUSTON EL shows that 78% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest reads as 16% Black. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 89% of students at HOUSTON EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Jefferson County (around 71%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, HOUSTON EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.7%.

Across the wider county, census data for Jefferson County shows median household earnings sit near $60,026, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. HOUSTON EL is one of 92 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 42,825 students).

The closest other public school is BOB HOPE SCHOOL, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HOUSTON EL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 40.1%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HOUSTON EL has edged up 14%, going from 606 students in 2018 to 689 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 72% to 78%.

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