RICHEY EL

RICHEY EL is one of the mid-tier elementary campuss in PASADENA, Texas, one of the schools within PASADENA ISD, with 505 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.

Across the 67 schools in PASADENA ISD (46,491 students total), RICHEY EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, RICHEY EL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). The remainder breaks down as 4% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the resource side, The school lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, RICHEY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.6%, the actual is 39.0%, a residual of +7.4 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Harris County) logs 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), RICHEY EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: DE ZAVALA MIDDLE, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RICHEY EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RICHEY EL at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 42.9%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RICHEY EL has edged down 32%, going from 738 students in 2018 to 505 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 5% to 0% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

On this page, members of the RICHEY EL community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.