PARK LAKES EL

As a mid-tier elementary campus in HUMBLE, Texas, PARK LAKES EL educates 675 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within HUMBLE ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 30% above the state mean of about 519.

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

On the student-mix side, PARK LAKES EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 61% of enrollment. Other groups include 32% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, PARK LAKES EL shows 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 78% of students at PARK LAKES EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PARK LAKES EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.7%; this one delivers 28.2%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Harris County put the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which PARK LAKES EL is one.

HUMBLE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PARK LAKES EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 33.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. PARK LAKES EL's enrollment has fell 6% since 2018, when it stood at 718 (now 675). The White share of enrollment edged down from 8% to 3% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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