MEMORIAL DRIVE EL

MEMORIAL DRIVE EL is one of the close-knit elementary-level communitys in HOUSTON, Texas, overseen by SPRING BRANCH ISD, with 388 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so MEMORIAL DRIVE EL sits 25% smaller than that benchmark.

Within SPRING BRANCH ISD, which oversees 46 schools and 33,793 students, MEMORIAL DRIVE EL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MEMORIAL DRIVE EL lists that 66% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 8% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 34% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, MEMORIAL DRIVE EL logs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 7% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Harris County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, MEMORIAL DRIVE EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 70.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 78.9%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), MEMORIAL DRIVE EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SPRING BRANCH MIDDLE, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MEMORIAL DRIVE EL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 65.3%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 13%: 447 students in 2018 compared to 388 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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