MAYDE CREEK EL

MAYDE CREEK EL is one of the big elementary schools in HOUSTON, Texas, part of KATY ISD, with 816 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so MAYDE CREEK EL sits 57% bigger than that benchmark.

Within KATY ISD, which oversees 78 schools and 96,111 students, MAYDE CREEK EL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, MAYDE CREEK EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 41%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 35% Black, 12% White, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Harris County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MAYDE CREEK EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.6%, the actual is 40.1%, a residual of -0.6 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Harris County shows 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%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which MAYDE CREEK EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: MAYDE CREEK J H, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MAYDE CREEK EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MAYDE CREEK EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 44.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MAYDE CREEK EL has edged down 3%, going from 840 students in 2018 to 816 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 26% to 35% across the same window.

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