LEWIS EL

LEWIS EL operates as a reasonably sized K-5 school in HOUSTON, Texas, one of the schools within HOUSTON ISD. Current enrollment sits at 675 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 30% bigger than typical.

HOUSTON ISD runs 273 schools in total, collectively educating 176,727 students. LEWIS EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, LEWIS EL reports that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 11% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, LEWIS EL lists 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Harris County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LEWIS EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.4%; this one delivers 33.3%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Harris County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), LEWIS EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ORTIZ MIDDLE, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LEWIS EL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 37.1%.

LEWIS EL operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. LEWIS EL's enrollment has decreased 16% since 2018, when it stood at 801 (now 675). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 74% to 88% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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