MILNE EL

MILNE EL is a reasonably sized K-5 school in HOUSTON, Texas, part of HOUSTON ISD. The school teaches 498 students in grades pre-K through 5.

MILNE EL is one of 273 schools operated by HOUSTON ISD, a district that teaches 176,727 students overall.

On the student-mix side, MILNE EL records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 57%. Beyond that, the school logs 40% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MILNE EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 32.1%; MILNE EL posts 17.9%, -14.3 points below that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Harris County shows median household income runs about $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), MILNE EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: VALLEY WEST EL, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MILNE EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.2%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. MILNE EL's enrollment has shrank 14% since 2018, when it stood at 582 (now 498). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 38% to 57% over that span.

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