MCGHEE EL

Set in CHANNELVIEW, Texas, MCGHEE EL is a mid-sized elementary school, part of CHANNELVIEW ISD. It hosts 770 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so MCGHEE EL sits 48% above that benchmark.

CHANNELVIEW ISD comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 9,335 students; MCGHEE EL is among them.

On demographics, MCGHEE EL reports that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 7% Black, 4% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting MCGHEE EL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, MCGHEE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.5%, the actual is 40.7%, a residual of +7.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, Harris County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 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 MCGHEE EL is one.

The closest other public school is CHANNELVIEW H S, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MCGHEE EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MCGHEE EL at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 34.4%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 50%: 514 students in 2018 compared to 770 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 78% to 88%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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