MARTIN EL

Set in HOUSTON, Texas, MARTIN EL is a mid-sized elementary campus, run under ALIEF ISD. It educates 654 students across grades K through 4. That puts it 26% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

ALIEF ISD runs 46 schools in total, collectively educating 38,610 students. MARTIN EL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, MARTIN EL logs that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest is composed of 7% Black, 7% Asian. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, MARTIN EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.2%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Harris County) records that median household earnings sit near $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. MARTIN EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

YOUNGBLOOD INT is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MARTIN EL. On composite proficiency, MARTIN EL comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MARTIN EL has shrank 30%, going from 935 students in 2018 to 654 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 73% to 83% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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