MARSHALL EL

MARSHALL EL, a middle-of-the-pack primary school in HOUSTON, Texas, run under HOUSTON ISD, works with 453 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

HOUSTON ISD comprises 273 schools with combined enrollment of 176,727 students; MARSHALL EL is among them.

In terms of who attends, MARSHALL EL lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 70%. Beyond that, the school lists 27% Black. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting MARSHALL EL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MARSHALL EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.2%; this one delivers 35.2%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household income runs about $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. MARSHALL EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

Nearest neighbor: YES PREP NORTH FOREST, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MARSHALL EL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 28.1%.

MARSHALL EL operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. MARSHALL EL's enrollment has declined 58% since 2018, when it stood at 1,070 (now 453). The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 35% to 27% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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