KRUSE EL

KRUSE EL operates as a compact elementary school in PASADENA, Texas, one of the schools within PASADENA ISD. Current enrollment sits at 408 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 21% below the state mean of about 519.

PASADENA ISD comprises 67 schools with combined enrollment of 46,491 students; KRUSE EL is among them.

In terms of who attends, KRUSE EL shows that nearly all students (93%) are Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Harris County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KRUSE EL ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 32.6%; KRUSE EL posts 48.7%, +16.1 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household earnings sit near $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), KRUSE EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is DE ZAVALA MIDDLE, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KRUSE EL. On composite proficiency, KRUSE EL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 38.2%.

KRUSE EL operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KRUSE EL has shrank 32%, going from 600 students in 2018 to 408 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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