POWELL EL

POWELL EL is a sizable elementary campus in THE WOODLANDS, Texas, overseen by CONROE ISD. The school teaches 830 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so POWELL EL sits 60% above that benchmark.

CONROE ISD runs 66 schools in total, collectively educating 72,914 students. POWELL EL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, POWELL EL shows that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 23% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 7% multiracial, 6% Black. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 21% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Montgomery County (around 48%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, POWELL EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.8%, the actual is 73.5%, a residual of +8.7 points.

In the area at large, Montgomery County reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,701 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. POWELL EL is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 134,595 students).

THE WOODLANDS H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), POWELL EL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 81.0%.

POWELL EL operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at POWELL EL has edged down 7%, going from 897 students in 2018 to 830 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 58% to 51% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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