MORALES EL

Located at 305 W HARRIS AVE, in PASADENA, Texas, MORALES EL is a tight-knit elementary school that enrolls 379 students (grades pre-K through 4), overseen by PASADENA ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 27% below the state mean of about 519.

Within PASADENA ISD, which oversees 67 schools and 46,491 students, MORALES EL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MORALES EL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%). Beyond that, the school reports 3% Black, 2% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 94% of students at MORALES EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Harris County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MORALES EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.9%, the actual is 42.8%, a residual of +10.0 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Harris County put the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. MORALES EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

Nearest neighbor: RICHARD MILBURN ACADEMY PASADENA, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MORALES EL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MORALES EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 43.3%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MORALES EL has contracted 27%, going from 519 students in 2018 to 379 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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