Enrollment
388
Elementary
DISTRICT 547 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPRING BRANCH ISD·NCES 484110004679
Memorial Drive Elementary School
11202 SMITHDALE, HOUSTON, TX 77024 · (713) 251-6300 · Harris County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL388 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
7%
28 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 21 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 70 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 66 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
93.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +31.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
90.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +33.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 93 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 90 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 31 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 33 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 70.0% | 23.0% | 5.0% | 2.0% |
| Mathematics | 57.0% | 33.0% | 7.0% | 3.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 93.0% | 90.0% |
| 2024-25 | 93.0% | 89.0% |
| 2023-24 | 82.0% | 76.0% |
| 2022-23 | 64.0% | 73.0% |
| 2021-22 | 59.0% | 71.0% |
| 2020-21 | 62.0% | 57.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
84.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.6%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Memorial Drive Elementary School
Memorial Drive Elementary School's state test result (84.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Drive Elementary School this school | 388 | 7.2% | 84.2% |
| Canyon Creek Elementary School RICHARDSON | 374 | 8.0% | 73.0% |
| Hidden Lakes Elementary School KELLER | 396 | 8.3% | 84.9% |
| Shady Grove Elementary School KELLER | 378 | 8.5% | 76.0% |
| Colleyville Elementary School COLLEYVILLE | 415 | 9.6% | 72.5% |
| Blanton Elementary School LANTANA | 470 | 5.7% | 67.9% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Memorial Drive Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Harris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 84.2% | #37 of 4,401 | #4 of 624 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 90.0% | #17 of 4,466 ▲ 6 | #4 of 625 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 93.0% | #16 of 4,466 ▲ 7 | #3 of 625 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +23.0pp | #370 of 3,998 | #46 of 603 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 388 | #3,586 of 4,938 | #554 of 682 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #2,245 of 4,622 | #297 of 657 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.8% | #2,149 of 4,628 | #282 of 657 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 7.2% | #4,714 of 4,789 | #669 of 671 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.2% | #1,760 of 2,838 | #302 of 441 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
388
-4 (-1%) vs 2020
-3% since 1990-91, when it was 398
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 17.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 388 | 26.3 | 14.8:1 | 7% (28) |
| 2023-24 | 362 | 24.1 | 15.1:1 | 9% (32) |
| 2022-23 | 394 | 24.3 | 16.2:1 | 8% (31) |
| 2020-21 | 392 | 23 | 17.0:1 | 11% (42) |
| 2017-18 | 447 | 28.1 | 15.9:1 | 11% (48) |
| 2015-16 | 458 | 32 | 14.3:1 | 8% (38) |
| 2010-11 | 445 | 28 | 15.9:1 | 5% (22) |
| 2000-01 | 462 | 29 | 15.9:1 | 4% (17) |
| 1990-91 | 398 | 21 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Memorial Drive Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (447 to 388); teachers down 7% (28.1 to 26.3).
About Memorial Drive Elementary School
Memorial Drive Elementary School is a small elementary school in HOUSTON, Texas, under SPRING BRANCH ISD. A federal count lists 388 students at the school, in pre-K through 5. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Texas is about 519, so this school runs 25% smaller than that.
Memorial Drive Elementary School falls under SPRING BRANCH ISD, which has 46 schools enrolling 33,793 students.
A majority of students at Memorial Drive Elementary School, 66%, are White. The remaining shares are 15% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 8% multiracial, and 2% Black. Harris County as a whole is about 34% White, so the school's share is higher. By the diversity index, Memorial Drive Elementary School comes in at 53%.
Memorial Drive Elementary School counts 26.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 14.8 students for each one. Elementary schools in Texas average about 15.1:1, a similar figure. The lunch program counts 7% of students at Memorial Drive Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The 70% average for public schools in Harris County is 63 points higher.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Memorial Drive Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Texas schools: 84.2% actual against 70.6% predicted.
In Harris County (population about 4,838,303), median household income is about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. The public schools of Harris County number 1,205 and enroll about 886,911.
Spring Branch Middle School is located about 0.8 miles from Memorial Drive Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 66.2% proficiency; Memorial Drive Elementary School posts 84.2%.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 392 to 388, a small change. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 17.0:1 to 14.8:1.
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Harris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
4,838,303
Census ACS
Median income
$74,983
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,205
886,911 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SPRING BRANCH ISD
- Memorial High SchoolHigh · 2,636 students
- Northbrook High SchoolHigh · 2,398 students
- Stratford High SchoolHigh · 2,394 students
- Spring Woods High SchoolHigh · 2,020 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,236 students
- Spring Branch Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,137 students
Other schools in HOUSTON
- Texas Connections Academy at HoustonCombined · 8,641 students
- North Shore Senior HighHigh · 4,284 students
- Elsik High SchoolHigh · 4,057 students
- Summer Creek High SchoolHigh · 3,972 students
- Hastings High SchoolHigh · 3,786 students
- C E King High SchoolHigh · 3,716 students
Other Memorial Drive Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Memorial Drive Elementary. Memorial Drive Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Memorial Drive Elementary SchoolWaycross, GA · 346 students
Nearby schools
- Spring Branch Middle School0.8 mi · 1,137
- Memorial High School0.9 mi · 2,636
- Hunters Creek Elementary School1.0 mi · 575
- Bunker Hill Elementary School1.6 mi · 766
- The Bear Blvd School1.6 mi · 257
- Cornerstone Academy1.6 mi · 423
Frequently asked questions
About Memorial Drive Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Memorial Drive Elementary School?
Memorial Drive Elementary School enrolls approximately 388 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Memorial Drive Elementary School serve?
Memorial Drive Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Memorial Drive Elementary School?
Approximately 14.8:1 students per teacher at Memorial Drive Elementary School.
How diverse is Memorial Drive Elementary School?
Memorial Drive Elementary School reports a student body of 66% White, 15% Hispanic, 2% Black, 9% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Memorial Drive Elementary School?
Memorial Drive Elementary School is overseen by SPRING BRANCH ISD in Harris County.
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