JAMES E WILLIAMS EL

Set in KATY, Texas, JAMES E WILLIAMS EL is a sprawling elementary-level community, overseen by KATY ISD. It educates 868 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so JAMES E WILLIAMS EL sits 67% above that benchmark.

JAMES E WILLIAMS EL is one of 78 schools operated by KATY ISD, a district that instructs 96,111 students overall.

In terms of who attends, JAMES E WILLIAMS EL reports that 41% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 41% White, 11% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 31% of students at JAMES E WILLIAMS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Fort Bend County (around 42%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, JAMES E WILLIAMS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.3%, the actual is 65.9%, a residual of +5.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Fort Bend County put median household earnings sit near $114,041, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Fort Bend County runs 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), of which JAMES E WILLIAMS EL is one.

The closest other public school is JOELLA EXLEY EL, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JAMES E WILLIAMS EL. On composite proficiency, JAMES E WILLIAMS EL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 76.8%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 25%: 695 students in 2018 compared to 868 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 18% to 41%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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