RAY DAILY EL

Set in HOUSTON, Texas, RAY DAILY EL is a sprawling K-5 school, operated by HOUSTON ISD. It works with 853 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 64% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

HOUSTON ISD runs 273 schools in total, collectively educating 176,727 students. RAY DAILY EL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, RAY DAILY EL lists that the most-represented group is Black (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 36% Hispanic, 12% White, 9% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, RAY DAILY EL logs 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 67% of students at RAY DAILY EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RAY DAILY EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.6%.

In the broader community, census data for Harris County shows median household income runs about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 RAY DAILY EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: NOTTINGHAM EL, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RAY DAILY EL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 56.1%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 838 students in 2018 compared to 853 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment contracted from 15% to 9% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 in 2025.

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