JOELLA EXLEY EL

JOELLA EXLEY EL is a roomy primary school in KATY, Texas, overseen by KATY ISD. The school instructs 868 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 67% larger than the state mean of about 519.

KATY ISD comprises 78 schools with combined enrollment of 96,111 students; JOELLA EXLEY EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, JOELLA EXLEY EL reports that the most-represented group is White (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 30% Asian, 25% Hispanic, 8% Black, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Fort Bend County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, JOELLA EXLEY EL has 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, JOELLA EXLEY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.3%, the actual is 62.7%, a residual of +5.4 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Fort Bend County put median household income runs about $114,041, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Fort Bend County's 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), JOELLA EXLEY EL is one campus in the mix.

GARLAND MCMEANS J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOELLA EXLEY EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JOELLA EXLEY EL at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 71.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 12%: 982 students in 2018 compared to 868 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share increased from 25% to 30%. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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