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ILTEXAS HOUSTON WINDMILL LAKES EL
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ILTEXAS HOUSTON WINDMILL LAKES EL
ILTEXAS HOUSTON WINDMILL LAKES EL operates as a mid-sized primary school in HOUSTON, Texas, part of INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF TEXAS (ILTEXAS). Current enrollment sits at 736 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so ILTEXAS HOUSTON WINDMILL LAKES EL sits 42% bigger than that benchmark.
INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF TEXAS (ILTEXAS) comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 25,497 students; ILTEXAS HOUSTON WINDMILL LAKES EL is among them.
On the student-mix side, ILTEXAS HOUSTON WINDMILL LAKES EL logs that nearly all students (80%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 17% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.
On the resource side, On paper, ILTEXAS HOUSTON WINDMILL LAKES EL has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
With demographic context factored in, ILTEXAS HOUSTON WINDMILL LAKES EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.6%; ILTEXAS HOUSTON WINDMILL LAKES EL posts 16.7%, -18.9 points below that line.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household income runs about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ILTEXAS HOUSTON WINDMILL LAKES EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).
ILTEXAS HOUSTON WINDMILL LAKES MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ILTEXAS HOUSTON WINDMILL LAKES EL at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 39.3%.
The campus sits in an urban setting. ILTEXAS HOUSTON WINDMILL LAKES EL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 18%: 895 students in 2018 compared to 736 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.
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