ROBERTS EL

ROBERTS EL is a mid-sized elementary campus in HOUSTON, Texas, part of HOUSTON ISD. The school works with 721 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so ROBERTS EL sits 39% above that benchmark.

Across the 273 schools in HOUSTON ISD (176,727 students total), ROBERTS EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, ROBERTS EL logs that 35% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 30% White, 14% Hispanic, 13% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 7% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, ROBERTS EL has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, ROBERTS EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.2%; this one delivers 77.9%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household income runs about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which ROBERTS EL is one.

DEBAKEY H S FOR HEALTH PROF is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ROBERTS EL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 67.1%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 5%: 759 students in 2018 compared to 721 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment expanded from 7% to 13% over that span.

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