JENSEN EL

JENSEN EL, a mid-sized elementary school in PASADENA, Texas, part of PASADENA ISD, teaches 567 students, covering grades pre-K through 4.

Within PASADENA ISD, which oversees 67 schools and 46,491 students, JENSEN EL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, JENSEN EL shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 74%. Other groups include 14% Black, 8% White, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, JENSEN EL sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 37.5%; actual is 54.2%, +16.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, Harris County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. JENSEN EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

Nearest neighbor: MARSHALL KENDRICK MIDDLE, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JENSEN EL. On composite proficiency, JENSEN EL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 43.8%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 675 students in 2018 compared to 567 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 82% to 74%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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