MARCELLA EL

Located at 16250 COTILLION DR, in HOUSTON, Texas, MARCELLA EL is a medium-sized elementary campus that hosts 530 students (grades 1 through 5), one of the schools within ALDINE ISD.

ALDINE ISD runs 76 schools in total, collectively educating 56,419 students. MARCELLA EL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, MARCELLA EL records that nearly all students (83%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 12% Black, 2% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, MARCELLA EL shows 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MARCELLA EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.7%, the actual is 28.3%, a residual of -6.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, Harris County reports that median household earnings sit near $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which MARCELLA EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: UP EXCELLENCE ACADEMY, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MARCELLA EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MARCELLA EL at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 31.8%.

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