RODERICK R PAIGE EL

As a compact elementary campus in HOUSTON, Texas, RODERICK R PAIGE EL serves 393 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by HOUSTON ISD. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 24% smaller than typical.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, RODERICK R PAIGE EL lists that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 41% Black. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, RODERICK R PAIGE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.4%, the actual is 30.5%, a residual of -0.9 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Harris County) records that median household earnings sit near $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which RODERICK R PAIGE EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: EASTEX-JENSEN NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, RODERICK R PAIGE EL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.3%.

RODERICK R PAIGE EL operates from a downtown location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RODERICK R PAIGE EL has fell 24%, going from 514 students in 2018 to 393 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share climbed from 31% to 41%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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