OAKLEY EL

OAKLEY EL is a high-enrollment primary school in NEW CANEY, Texas, overseen by NEW CANEY ISD. The school works with 816 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 57% bigger than the state mean of about 519.

Across the 20 schools in NEW CANEY ISD (19,420 students total), OAKLEY EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, OAKLEY EL records that 72% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder is composed of 23% White. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 88% of students at OAKLEY EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), OAKLEY EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.5%; this one delivers 28.6%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household earnings sit near $97,701, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Montgomery County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,595 students), OAKLEY EL is one campus in the mix.

NEW CANEY H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around OAKLEY EL. On composite proficiency, OAKLEY EL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 821 students in 2018 compared to 816 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 62% to 72%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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