JAMES C NEILL EL

JAMES C NEILL EL operates as a roomy primary school in RICHMOND, Texas, run under FORT BEND ISD. Current enrollment sits at 1,253 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 141% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

FORT BEND ISD comprises 83 schools with combined enrollment of 79,663 students; JAMES C NEILL EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JAMES C NEILL EL shows that the largest single group is Asian at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 25% Black, 18% Hispanic, 14% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, JAMES C NEILL EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.4%, the actual is 47.8%, a residual of -10.6 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Fort Bend County indicate the typical household earns roughly $114,041 per year, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Fort Bend County's 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), JAMES C NEILL EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: WILLIAM B TRAVIS H S, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JAMES C NEILL EL at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 64.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JAMES C NEILL EL has climbed 87%, going from 671 students in 2018 to 1,253 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment ticked up from 18% to 38% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 today.

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