METZLER EL

METZLER EL is an elementary campus of big scale in KLEIN, Texas, one of the schools within KLEIN ISD, teacheing 846 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 63% larger than the state mean of about 519.

KLEIN ISD runs 50 schools in total, collectively educating 52,437 students. METZLER EL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, METZLER EL lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 35% White, 11% Black, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, METZLER EL has 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, METZLER EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.2%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Harris County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 METZLER EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: HOFIUS INT, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, METZLER EL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 65.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. METZLER EL's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 863 (now 846). Hispanic enrollment moved from 31% to 45% across the same window.

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