OYSTER CREEK EL

OYSTER CREEK EL is one of the roomy K-5 schools in SUGAR LAND, Texas, overseen by FORT BEND ISD, with 824 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 59% above typical.

FORT BEND ISD runs 83 schools in total, collectively educating 79,663 students. OYSTER CREEK EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, OYSTER CREEK EL shows that the largest single group is Asian at 35%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 23% Black, 22% Hispanic, 15% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Fort Bend County as a whole is about 22% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Fort Bend County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, OYSTER CREEK EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.7%, the actual is 56.0%, a residual of +9.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Fort Bend County shows median household income runs about $114,041, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Fort Bend County's 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), OYSTER CREEK EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is STEPHEN F AUSTIN H S, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, OYSTER CREEK EL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. OYSTER CREEK EL's enrollment has shrank 3% since 2018, when it stood at 848 (now 824). Over the same period, the White share fell from 21% to 15%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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