LOOSCAN EL

LOOSCAN EL, a cozy K-5 school in HOUSTON, Texas, one of the schools within HOUSTON ISD, serves 229 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so LOOSCAN EL sits 56% below that benchmark.

LOOSCAN EL is one of 273 schools operated by HOUSTON ISD, a district that enrolls 176,727 students overall.

In terms of who attends, LOOSCAN EL logs that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 10% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, LOOSCAN EL has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LOOSCAN 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 42.5%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Harris County) shows that median household income runs about $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which LOOSCAN EL is one.

MARTINEZ C EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LOOSCAN EL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.1%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. LOOSCAN EL's enrollment has edged down 35% since 2018, when it stood at 352 (now 229). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged down from 94% to 88%.

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