MADING EL

MADING EL operates as a low-enrollment elementary campus in HOUSTON, Texas, one of the schools within HOUSTON ISD. Current enrollment sits at 298 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 43% smaller than typical.

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

Demographically, MADING EL shows that 61% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 38% Hispanic. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, MADING EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.8%, the actual is 23.9%, a residual of -7.9 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. MADING EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

Nearest neighbor: ALCOTT EL, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MADING EL. On composite proficiency, MADING EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.0%.

MADING EL operates from a metropolitan location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MADING EL has edged down 42%, going from 515 students in 2018 to 298 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 22% to 38% across the same window.

On allk12, the feed for MADING EL typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.