OAKS EL

Set in HUMBLE, Texas, OAKS EL is a mid-tier K-5 school, part of HUMBLE ISD. It educates 591 students across grades pre-K through 5.

HUMBLE ISD runs 50 schools in total, collectively educating 48,502 students. OAKS EL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, OAKS EL shows that 44% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 30% Black, 17% White, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), OAKS EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 42.8%; this one comes in at 26.9%, -15.9 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Harris County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which OAKS EL is one.

The closest other public school is OAK FOREST EL, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, OAKS EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.5%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at OAKS EL has grew 5%, going from 563 students in 2018 to 591 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 31% to 17%. Class-load math has fell: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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