PROJECT CHRYSALIS MIDDLE

Located at 4528 LEELAND, in HOUSTON, Texas, PROJECT CHRYSALIS MIDDLE is a rural-scale intermediate school that serves 241 students (grades 6 through 8), run under HOUSTON ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so PROJECT CHRYSALIS MIDDLE sits 63% below that benchmark.

PROJECT CHRYSALIS MIDDLE is one of 273 schools operated by HOUSTON ISD, a district that caters to 176,727 students overall.

In terms of who attends, PROJECT CHRYSALIS MIDDLE reports that nearly all students (95%) are Hispanic; the rest consists of 2% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 85% of students at PROJECT CHRYSALIS MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Harris County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PROJECT CHRYSALIS MIDDLE ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 36.9%; PROJECT CHRYSALIS MIDDLE posts 73.9%, +37.0 points above that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Harris County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), PROJECT CHRYSALIS MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is CAGE EL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PROJECT CHRYSALIS MIDDLE comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 51.0%.

PROJECT CHRYSALIS MIDDLE operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PROJECT CHRYSALIS MIDDLE has shrank 8%, going from 263 students in 2018 to 241 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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