ROBERT CRIPPEN EL

As a big elementary-level community in PORTER, Texas, ROBERT CRIPPEN EL teaches 809 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under NEW CANEY ISD. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 56% above typical.

ROBERT CRIPPEN EL is one of 20 schools operated by NEW CANEY ISD, a district that hosts 19,420 students overall.

On the student-mix side, ROBERT CRIPPEN EL records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 57% of enrollment. Other groups include 26% White, 10% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, ROBERT CRIPPEN EL records 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 69% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, ROBERT CRIPPEN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.8%, the actual is 33.2%, a residual of -10.6 points.

In the broader community, census data for Montgomery County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,701 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Montgomery County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,595 students), ROBERT CRIPPEN EL is one campus in the mix.

PORTER H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ROBERT CRIPPEN EL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.9%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 4%: 842 students in 2018 compared to 809 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 72% to 57% across the same window.

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