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How has KOLTER EL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
771
Elementary
DISTRICT 515 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOUSTON ISD·NCES 482364002510
Kolter Elementary School
6300 AVE B, BELLAIRE, TX 77401 · (713) 726-3630 · Harris County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL771 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% of Texas public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
182 students
DISTRICT 84% · 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 | 35 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 130 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 127 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 122 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 122 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 120 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 115 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (130) is 13% larger than its 5th grade class (115).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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
76.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +21.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
70.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +20.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 70 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 21 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 20 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 52.0% | 24.0% | 14.0% | 10.0% |
| Mathematics | 46.0% | 24.0% | 15.0% | 15.0% |
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 | 76.0% | 70.0% |
| 2024-25 | 82.0% | 80.0% |
| 2023-24 | 81.0% | 81.0% |
| 2022-23 | 47.0% | 47.0% |
| 2021-22 | 64.0% | 45.0% |
| 2020-21 | 55.0% | 50.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
80.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.6%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 64% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Texas's top 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 Kolter Elementary School
Kolter Elementary School's state test result (80.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kolter Elementary School this school | 771 | 23.6% | 80.5% |
| French Elementary School KLEIN | 786 | 24.0% | 73.5% |
| Jim Plain Elementary School LEANDER | 704 | 23.9% | 44.1% |
| Snyder Elementary School SPRING | 859 | 25.1% | 65.5% |
| Broadway Elementary School SPRING | 914 | 21.3% | 68.8% |
| W R Hatfield Elementary School FORT WORTH | 756 | 25.5% | 45.1% |
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 Kolter Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Harris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.5% | #82 of 4,401 | #11 of 624 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #422 of 4,466 ▼ 279 | #44 of 625 ▼ 27 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #427 of 4,466 ▼ 196 | #51 of 625 ▼ 21 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +26.0pp | #262 of 3,998 | #35 of 603 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 771 | #550 of 4,938 | #152 of 682 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.0:1 | #4,205 of 4,622 | #588 of 657 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.8% | #545 of 4,628 | #74 of 657 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.6% | #4,357 of 4,789 | #638 of 671 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +20.1% | #415 of 1,307 | #38 of 148 |
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
771
+45 (+6%) vs 2020
+55% since 1990-91, when it was 496
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
was 18.6:1
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 | 771 | 42.9 | 18.0:1 | 24% (182) |
| 2023-24 | 762 | 42 | 18.1:1 | 25% (191) |
| 2022-23 | 757 | 40 | 18.9:1 | 29% (222) |
| 2020-21 | 726 | 39 | 18.6:1 | 25% (179) |
| 2017-18 | 642 | 38 | 16.9:1 | 22% (142) |
| 2015-16 | 665 | 39 | 17.1:1 | 25% (169) |
| 2010-11 | 594 | 35 | 17.0:1 | 16% (98) |
| 2000-01 | 533 | 33 | 16.1:1 | 26% (139) |
| 1990-91 | 496 | 32 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kolter Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 20% (642 to 771); teachers up 13% (38 to 42.9).
About Kolter Elementary School
Kolter Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Texas, with an address in BELLAIRE. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 771 students. The typical figure for elementary schools in Texas is about 519 students.
HOUSTON ISD enrolls 176,727 students in 273 schools, including Kolter Elementary School.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Kolter Elementary School. The largest is White students, at 44%. The remaining students are 28% Hispanic, 12% Black, 10% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Census figures show Harris County is about 34% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 70% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school reported 42.9 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 18.0:1. That is 2.9 students per teacher above the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 24%. The 70% average for public schools in Harris County is 46 points higher.
allk12 grades Kolter Elementary School an A+. The grade compares the school only with Texas public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations places Kolter Elementary School in the top 10% of Texas schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 16.8 points above it (80.5% actual, 63.6% predicted).
Harris County census figures show that the median household income is $74,983, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 13%. Harris County is home to 1,205 public schools and about 886,911 public school students.
The school nearest to Kolter Elementary School is Pin Oak Middle School, at a distance of about 0.5 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Kolter Elementary School places 3rd of 7 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 45 more students in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Harris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
4,838,303
Census ACS
Median income
$74,983
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,205
886,911 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HOUSTON ISD
- Texas Connections Academy at HoustonCombined · 8,641 students
- Bellaire High SchoolHigh · 3,216 students
- Lamar High SchoolHigh · 2,968 students
- Westside High SchoolHigh · 2,729 students
- Heights High SchoolHigh · 2,426 students
- Houston Math Science and Technology CenterHigh · 2,396 students
Other schools in BELLAIRE
- Bellaire High SchoolHigh · 3,216 students
- Pin Oak Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,253 students
- Horn Elementary SchoolElementary · 750 students
- Condit Elementary SchoolElementary · 730 students
Nearby schools
- Pin Oak Middle School0.5 mi · 1,253
- Challenge Early College High School0.6 mi · 485
- Cunningham Elementary School0.8 mi · 562
- Condit Elementary School0.9 mi · 730
- Liberty High School1.1 mi · 352
- Middle College H S at Hcc Gulfton1.1 mi · 72
Frequently asked questions
About Kolter Elementary SchoolHow large is Kolter Elementary School?
Kolter Elementary School enrolls approximately 771 students in grades PK-05.
Is Kolter Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Kolter Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Kolter Elementary School have?
Kolter Elementary School employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Kolter Elementary School?
Student demographics at Kolter Elementary School are roughly 44% White, 28% Hispanic, 12% Black, 10% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Kolter Elementary School public or private?
Kolter Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by HOUSTON ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.