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What's one thing PYBURN EL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
454
Elementary
DISTRICT 632 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GALENA PARK ISD·NCES 482025001991
Pyburn Elementary School
12302 COULSON, HOUSTON, TX 77015 · (832) 386-3150 · Harris County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL454 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 83% of Texas public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
417 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 44 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 59 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
6%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
62.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +26.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
55.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +14.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 26 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 14 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 34.0% | 28.0% | 19.0% | 19.0% |
| Mathematics | 25.0% | 30.0% | 29.0% | 16.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 62.0% | 55.0% |
| 2024-25 | 60.0% | 57.0% |
| 2023-24 | 52.0% | 52.0% |
| 2022-23 | 48.0% | 56.0% |
| 2021-22 | 50.0% | 47.0% |
| 2020-21 | 36.0% | 41.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
51.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.5%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 34% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Pyburn Elementary School
Pyburn Elementary School's state test result (51.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pyburn Elementary School this school | 454 | 91.9% | 51.4% |
| Thompson Elementary School HOUSTON | 455 | 92.3% | 51.4% |
| Durkee Elementary School HOUSTON | 439 | 92.0% | 42.0% |
| Alonso S Perales Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 469 | 90.4% | 33.6% |
| Lyndon B Johnson Elementary School ELSA | 470 | 91.9% | 32.9% |
| Presidio Elementary School PRESIDIO | 446 | 90.8% | 19.3% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Pyburn Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Harris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.4% | #1,312 of 4,401 | #146 of 624 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #1,314 of 4,466 ▼ 242 | #166 of 625 ▼ 47 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #1,251 of 4,466 ▲ 167 | #146 of 625 ▲ 17 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.5pp | #1,931 of 3,998 | #299 of 603 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 454 | #2,979 of 4,938 | #498 of 682 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #746 of 4,622 | #110 of 657 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 6.4% | #4,264 of 4,628 | #638 of 657 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.9% | #858 of 4,789 | #212 of 671 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.5% | #479 of 2,838 | #105 of 441 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
454
-100 (-18%) vs 2020
+22% since 1990-91, when it was 371
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 15.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 454 | 35.3 | 12.9:1 | 92% (417) |
| 2023-24 | 461 | 33.6 | 13.7:1 | 90% (414) |
| 2022-23 | 461 | 34 | 13.6:1 | 90% (415) |
| 2020-21 | 554 | 37 | 15.0:1 | 89% (491) |
| 2017-18 | 653 | 39 | 16.7:1 | 84% (550) |
| 2015-16 | 649 | 42 | 15.4:1 | 84% (543) |
| 2010-11 | 637 | 46 | 13.8:1 | 86% (548) |
| 2000-01 | 539 | 40 | 13.5:1 | 77% (416) |
| 1990-91 | 371 | 27 | 13.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pyburn Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (653 to 454); teachers down 10% (39 to 35.3).
About Pyburn Elementary School
Pyburn Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school with its address in HOUSTON, Texas. The school has 454 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5.
A total of 26 schools make up GALENA PARK ISD, with 20,862 students enrolled.
Pyburn Elementary School is 97% Hispanic by enrollment. The remaining shares are 2% Black. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Harris County's population at about 44%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Pyburn Elementary School scores 6%.
There are 35.3 full-time-equivalent teachers at Pyburn Elementary School, giving a ratio of 12.9:1. The school's 12.9:1 compares with an average of 15.1:1 for elementary schools in Texas. By family income, 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Harris County averages 70%, lower than here.
On the allk12 Grade, Pyburn Elementary School lands at A-, ahead of 83% of Texas public elementary schools.
A school in Texas with Pyburn Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 34.5%. Pyburn Elementary School scores 51.4%.
Census data for Harris County show the median household earns about $74,983 a year, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. Public schools in Harris County number 1,205, with about 886,911 students.
Harris R P Elementary School is about 0.5 miles from Pyburn Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Pyburn Elementary School is 3rd on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was an 18% decrease, from 554 to 454. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 15.0:1 to 12.9:1.
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Harris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
4,838,303
Census ACS
Median income
$74,983
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,205
886,911 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in GALENA PARK ISD
- North Shore Senior HighHigh · 4,284 students
- Galena Park High SchoolHigh · 1,815 students
- North Shore Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,299 students
- Cobb 6th Grade CampusMiddle · 991 students
- North Shore Elementary SchoolElementary · 965 students
- Galena Park Middle SchoolMiddle · 896 students
Other schools in HOUSTON
- Texas Connections Academy at HoustonCombined · 8,641 students
- North Shore Senior HighHigh · 4,284 students
- Elsik High SchoolHigh · 4,057 students
- Summer Creek High SchoolHigh · 3,972 students
- Hastings High SchoolHigh · 3,786 students
- C E King High SchoolHigh · 3,716 students
Nearby schools
- Harris R P Elementary School0.5 mi · 383
- Jacinto City Elementary School1.0 mi · 689
- The Varnett School - East1.0 mi · 275
- Woodland Acres Middle School1.2 mi · 570
- Woodland Acres Elementary School1.3 mi · 458
- Whittier Elementary School1.5 mi · 326
Frequently asked questions
About Pyburn Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Pyburn Elementary School?
Pyburn Elementary School enrolls approximately 454 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Pyburn Elementary School serve?
Pyburn Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Pyburn Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Pyburn Elementary School is approximately 12.9:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Pyburn Elementary School?
At Pyburn Elementary School, the student body is approximately 1% White, 97% Hispanic, 2% Black.
Is Pyburn Elementary School public or private?
Pyburn Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by GALENA PARK ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.