LAWRENCE E ELKINS H S

Set in MISSOURI CITY, Texas, LAWRENCE E ELKINS H S is a high-enrollment secondary school, part of FORT BEND ISD. It educates 2,848 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 258% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

Across the 83 schools in FORT BEND ISD (79,663 students total), LAWRENCE E ELKINS H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, LAWRENCE E ELKINS H S logs that 45% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 26% Black, 15% Hispanic, 9% White, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the resource side, LAWRENCE E ELKINS H S records 151 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting LAWRENCE E ELKINS H S higher than the state norm the norm. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fort Bend County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LAWRENCE E ELKINS H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 68.0%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Fort Bend County) reports that median household earnings sit near $114,041, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Fort Bend County's 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), LAWRENCE E ELKINS H S is one campus in the mix.

SONAL S BHUCHAR EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LAWRENCE E ELKINS H S. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LAWRENCE E ELKINS H S ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 54.3%.

LAWRENCE E ELKINS H S operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 23%: 2,307 students in 2018 compared to 2,848 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment climbed from 33% to 45% over that span.

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