LORAINE T GOLBOW EL

LORAINE T GOLBOW EL is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in KATY, Texas, operated by KATY ISD, teacheing 640 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 23% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

KATY ISD runs 78 schools in total, collectively educating 96,111 students. LORAINE T GOLBOW EL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, LORAINE T GOLBOW EL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 29% Black, 15% White, 9% Asian, 6% multiracial. Compared to Harris County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, LORAINE T GOLBOW EL logs 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LORAINE T GOLBOW EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.7%, the actual is 47.4%, a residual of +3.7 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Harris County shows 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%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), LORAINE T GOLBOW EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: T H MCDONALD J H, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LORAINE T GOLBOW EL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 45.3%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. LORAINE T GOLBOW EL's enrollment has fell 18% since 2018, when it stood at 783 (now 640). White enrollment moved from 25% to 15% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the LORAINE T GOLBOW EL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.