RUCKER EL

RUCKER EL is one of the small primary schools in HOUSTON, Texas, part of HOUSTON ISD, with 434 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

HOUSTON ISD comprises 273 schools with combined enrollment of 176,727 students; RUCKER EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, RUCKER EL logs that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 4% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting RUCKER EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Harris County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, RUCKER EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.1%.

In the broader community, census data for Harris County shows median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which RUCKER EL is one.

The closest other public school is PATTERSON EL, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RUCKER EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. RUCKER EL's enrollment has declined 11% since 2018, when it stood at 489 (now 434). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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