OUTLEY EL

OUTLEY EL is a K-5 school of heavily attended scale in HOUSTON, Texas, run under ALIEF ISD, instructing 863 students in grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 66% bigger than the state mean of about 519.

OUTLEY EL is one of 46 schools operated by ALIEF ISD, a district that educates 38,610 students overall.

Looking at the student body, OUTLEY EL reports that 54% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 31% Hispanic, 8% White, 6% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, OUTLEY EL has 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, OUTLEY EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.8%; this one delivers 45.0%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. OUTLEY EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

BUDEWIG INT is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, OUTLEY EL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 44.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at OUTLEY EL has decreased 29%, going from 1,207 students in 2018 to 863 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 13% to 6% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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