MEADOR EL

MEADOR EL operates as a mid-tier elementary-level community in HOUSTON, Texas, overseen by PASADENA ISD. Current enrollment sits at 443 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.

MEADOR EL is one of 67 schools operated by PASADENA ISD, a district that works with 46,491 students overall.

On the student-mix side, MEADOR EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 25% Black, 7% Asian, 5% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, MEADOR EL has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Harris County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, MEADOR EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.9%, the actual is 45.8%, a residual of +12.0 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household income runs about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), MEADOR EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is MORRIS MIDDLE, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MEADOR EL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 39.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 27%: 604 students in 2018 compared to 443 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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