LAS AMERICAS

LAS AMERICAS operates as a tiny 6-8 campus in HOUSTON, Texas, one of the schools within HOUSTON ISD. Current enrollment sits at 111 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so LAS AMERICAS sits 83% leaner than that benchmark.

Within HOUSTON ISD, which oversees 273 schools and 176,727 students, LAS AMERICAS is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, LAS AMERICAS reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%). Other groups include 9% Asian, 4% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, LAS AMERICAS has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Harris County) logs that median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. LAS AMERICAS is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

Nearest neighbor: LONG ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LAS AMERICAS.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. LAS AMERICAS's enrollment has edged down 34% since 2018, when it stood at 169 (now 111). Black enrollment moved from 19% to 4% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 8.5:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for LAS AMERICAS typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.