RICE EL

Located at 904 GLADSTELL ST, in CONROE, Texas, RICE EL is an average-sized elementary school that caters to 602 students (grades pre-K through 4), run under CONROE ISD.

Within CONROE ISD, which oversees 66 schools and 72,914 students, RICE EL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, RICE EL records that 48% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 30% White, 14% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, On paper, RICE EL has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 66% of students at RICE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Montgomery County's rate of about 48%.

After controlling for student poverty, RICE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.1%, the actual is 44.5%, a residual of -0.7 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household income runs about $97,701, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. RICE EL is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 134,595 students).

The closest other public school is ARMSTRONG EL, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, RICE EL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 44.6%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 595 students in 2018 compared to 602 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 36% to 30% over that span.

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