LOVE EL

LOVE EL, a close-knit K-5 school in HOUSTON, Texas, part of HOUSTON ISD, educates 340 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 34% leaner than typical.

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

On demographics, LOVE EL shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 75%; the rest looks like 14% White, 8% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, LOVE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.8%, the actual is 43.4%, a residual of -2.4 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household income runs about $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which LOVE EL is one.

The closest other public school is HOUSTON HEIGHTS CHARTER SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LOVE EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 59.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LOVE EL has edged down 17%, going from 410 students in 2018 to 340 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share decreased from 88% to 75%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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