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Enrollment
859
Elementary
DISTRICT 786 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CONROE ISD·NCES 481500011309
Kaufman Elementary School
2760 NORTHRIDGE FOREST DR, SPRING, TX 77386 · (832) 592-5600 · Montgomery County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL859 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
56 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
222 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 21 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 163 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 152 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 168 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 174 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 181 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (163) is 10% smaller than its 4th grade class (181).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
62.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +6.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
62.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +18.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 6 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 18 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 30.0% | 32.0% | 23.0% | 15.0% |
| Mathematics | 36.0% | 26.0% | 21.0% | 17.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 62.0% | 62.0% |
| 2024-25 | 64.0% | 67.0% |
| 2023-24 | 68.0% | 68.0% |
| 2022-23 | 77.0% | 72.0% |
| 2021-22 | 74.0% | 63.0% |
| 2020-21 | 56.0% | 44.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
66.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.6%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Kaufman Elementary School
Kaufman Elementary School's state test result (66.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaufman Elementary School this school | 859 | 25.8% | 66.6% |
| Art and Pat Goforth Elementary School LEAGUE CITY | 765 | 24.7% | 58.8% |
| Hamilton Elementary School CYPRESS | 999 | 25.2% | 72.0% |
| Wylie East Elementary School ABILENE | 776 | 26.4% | 63.3% |
| Katy Elementary School KATY | 699 | 27.6% | 59.3% |
| Meadow Wood Elementary School HOUSTON | 686 | 28.1% | 60.3% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Kaufman Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.6% | #434 of 4,401 | #13 of 77 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #805 of 4,466 ▼ 301 | #23 of 77 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #1,238 of 4,466 ▼ 143 | #26 of 77 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -12.5pp | #229 of 3,998 | #3 of 70 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 859 | #276 of 4,938 | #15 of 79 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #2,752 of 4,622 | #46 of 78 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.3% | #1,121 of 4,628 | #25 of 78 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.8% | #4,311 of 4,789 | #63 of 78 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.8% | #2,791 of 2,838 | #36 of 37 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
859
+8 (+1%) vs 2020
-14% since 2010-11, when it was 1,004
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 15.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 859 | 56 | 15.3:1 | 26% (222) |
| 2023-24 | 909 | 58 | 15.7:1 | 30% (269) |
| 2022-23 | 942 | 57 | 16.5:1 | 27% (255) |
| 2020-21 | 851 | 55 | 15.5:1 | 23% (197) |
| 2017-18 | 866 | 54 | 16.0:1 | 14% (119) |
| 2015-16 | 832 | 49 | 17.0:1 | 12% (99) |
| 2010-11 | 1,004 | 58 | 17.3:1 | 13% (130) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kaufman Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (866 to 859); teachers up 4% (54 to 56).
About Kaufman Elementary School
Kaufman Elementary School is one of the public schools in SPRING, Texas. It is a large elementary school. The school has 859 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 4. That compares with an average of about 519 students for elementary schools in Texas.
Kaufman Elementary School is one school in CONROE ISD, a system of 66 schools with 72,914 students.
At Kaufman Elementary School, 53% of students are White. The remaining students are 26% Hispanic, 10% Black, 6% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Census figures show Montgomery County is about 67% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Kaufman Elementary School scores 63%.
Staffing at Kaufman Elementary School comes to 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.3:1. That is in line with the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. Kaufman Elementary School counts 26% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is lower than the 48% average for public schools in Montgomery County.
Kaufman Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 66.6%, compared with a predicted 62.6%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Texas schools on BeatsExpectations.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Montgomery County show that the median household earns about $97,701 a year, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Across Montgomery County, 160 public schools serve about 134,595 students.
Kaufman Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Birnham Woods Elementary School, about 0.8 miles away. Within five miles of Kaufman Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 66.6% is above the 59.7% average for nearby schools.
Under the NCES locale system, Kaufman Elementary School is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 851 in 2020-21 and 859 in 2024-25.
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Montgomery County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
684,432
Census ACS
Median income
$97,701
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
160
134,595 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CONROE ISD
- Conroe High SchoolHigh · 5,252 students
- The Woodlands High SchoolHigh · 4,444 students
- Grand Oaks High SchoolHigh · 3,836 students
- College Park High SchoolHigh · 3,313 students
- Caney Creek High SchoolHigh · 2,783 students
- Oak Ridge High SchoolHigh · 2,758 students
Other schools in SPRING
- Grand Oaks High SchoolHigh · 3,836 students
- Spring High SchoolHigh · 2,594 students
- York Junior High SchoolMiddle · 2,009 students
- Carl Wunsche Sr High SchoolHigh · 1,503 students
- Cox Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 1,053 students
- Chet Burchett Elementary SchoolElementary · 982 students
Nearby schools
- Birnham Woods Elementary School0.8 mi · 845
- Bradley Elementary School1.5 mi · 948
- Ford Elementary School2.1 mi · 857
- Vogel Intermediate School2.3 mi · 953
- Snyder Elementary School2.5 mi · 859
- Grand Oaks High School2.5 mi · 3,836
Frequently asked questions
About Kaufman Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Kaufman Elementary School?
Kaufman Elementary School enrolls approximately 859 students in grades PK-04.
Is Kaufman Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Kaufman Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Kaufman Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Kaufman Elementary School is approximately 15.3:1 (56 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Kaufman Elementary School?
At Kaufman Elementary School, the student body is approximately 53% White, 26% Hispanic, 10% Black, 4% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Kaufman Elementary School public or private?
Kaufman Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by CONROE ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.